Halo: The Fall of Reach
Novel by Eric NylundWikipedia
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Oct 17, 2026
ChrisPANELIST
Hi, this is Chris playing Tetrick Taylor.
ChrisPANELIST
And do we have any Eric Nyland fans? Nyland Nyland fans in the audience? Halo books like Halo Flood, Fall of Reach, etc.
ChrisPANELIST
Me, me.
ChrisPANELIST
Yeah.
Loki JarsonHOST
Not, it's not gonna click in my head.
Loki JarsonHOST
The guy who wrote The Fall of Reach novelization around the time the first, the second Halo game came out, that was all canon.
Loki JarsonHOST
And then Bungie said, "Actually, we're making our own game called Halo Reach, and fuck that book.
Loki JarsonHOST
So we don't have to follow the canon," and it's just happening again.
DaveGUEST
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DaveGUEST
but also [laughs] but, um, no, so just with, I mean, kinda going off what you were saying there, I just wanted to ask, 'cause, I mean, most people, whenever you, they think of Halo books, they're gonna immediately think, oh, Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, like, kind of the first three.
DaveGUEST
What made you choose Ghost of Onyx? Is it just because that's the first one you read, or, like, the only one you read? Or is it more like, "No, this is, this is the story that I wanna illustrate, this is the one that deserves to be illustrated"?
Alex BeauregardGUEST
I felt as Ghost of Onyx, I think, well, Ghost of Onyx, uh, what are the other two? Harvest and I think Cole Protocol were the three other novels that got released after, uh, the three original from the trilogy, and I feel Ghost of Onyx, a lot of people either have read it or have seen it.
BrianHOST
But let's get right into what many people listening to this podcast will be interested to hear us talk about, um, We're definitely late to the party.
BrianHOST
It's been over a week now since it's been announced that 343, our Halo Studios, more recently, has been basically gutted down to a team of a couple dozen that are just going to maintain games that are already out, like Campaign Evolved, MCC, slash maybe book deals and releases, marketing.
BrianHOST
And Halo in its entirety... being developed moving forward has gone over to Activision.
BrianHOST
So now Activision will be developing the next full-scale Halo game.
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BrianHOST
I do understand the seriousness of if you really love a story or a game or something specific and it's suddenly decanonized.
BrianHOST
I understand how shitty that feels and that I can understand having an emotional reaction to that.
BrianHOST
But at the same time, like it's just like with Star Wars, right? When Star Wars got purchased by Disney, you had the six films, the Clone Wars, all those books, games you cared about.
BrianHOST
They're in the Legends banner now.
DakotaHOST
But, uh, I'll start with, with this.
DakotaHOST
I- I s- I finished reading the first Halo book, which is called The Fall of Reach, which is the prequel novel to the original Halo: Combat Evolved game.
DakotaHOST
And I've heard that there are some, like, early fragments of Halo that don't really exist in the franchise anymore because it was, like, pre-game canon a little bit, but it does heavily influence the story of the first game and, um, its eventual novelization, Halo: The Flood, which I have picked up now.
DakotaHOST
And I, I think it's a funny read because it doesn't, it doesn't so much come across as a novel like the first book, The Fall of Reach.
DakotaHOST
This feels very much like, "This is what happened in the game, and then you enter this room, and this is what happened in the game, and he's missing a gun, so now he has to find a gun." So it follows game logic a little bit more, which is, eh, it's a little weird.
DakotaHOST
But, um, I'm getting into it and yeah, I'm...
DakotaHOST
There's so many questions that I have, you know? Like, I don't even know where to begin.
DakotaHOST
Like, I don't...
Ray HazelHOST
And there's deep lore into those games.
Ray HazelHOST
I was such a fanboy of Halo that I absolutely read, I want to say, the first six or seven books that came out for this series.
Ray HazelHOST
read the fall of reach red first strike um red halo the flood uh that was what the ghost protocol uh the coal protocol yeah i've read several different books harvest contact harvest If anything, my parents never got too angry at me playing Halo because it got me to read a lot of books.
Ray HazelHOST
It wasn't the thing that got me into sci-fi books, but it definitely helped a lot.
Ray HazelHOST
So, yeah, I owe that game a lot for all those fun times.
Ray HazelHOST
And, you know, occasionally there were still lots of fun Halo LAN parties.
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Ray HazelHOST
And even the people that made Halo 5, 343 Industries, try to go out of their way to pretend Halo 5 doesn't exist.
Ray HazelHOST
They understand they went too hard in the paint.
Ray HazlipHOST
And there's deep lore into those games.
Ray HazlipHOST
I was such a fanboy of Halo that I absolutely read, I want to say, the first six or seven books that came out for this series.
Ray HazlipHOST
read the fall of reach red first strike um red halo the flood uh that was what the ghost protocol uh the coal protocol yeah i've read several different books harvest contact harvest If anything, my parents never got too angry at me playing Halo because it got me to read a lot of books.
Ray HazlipHOST
It wasn't the thing that got me into sci-fi books, but it definitely helped a lot.
Ray HazlipHOST
yeah i i owe that game a lot for all those fun times and you know occasionally there were still lots of fun halo land parties i i played the game online a couple times in the friend's house uh the battle rifle added something to the game that i personally didn't like and it added this sort of weird chaos that felt off to me now don't get me wrong it was fun it was cool while playing it in uh single player but it still felt off so Yeah, odd.
Ray HazlipHOST
Anyways, Halo 3 eventually came out.
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Ray HazlipHOST
And even the people that made Halo 5, 343 Industries, try to go out of their way to pretend Halo 5 doesn't exist.
Ray HazlipHOST
They understand they went too hard in the paint.
NickHOST
Crazy times are happening.
NickHOST
In what is great news for Halo fans right now, a full cast audiobook has been announced for The Fall of Reach.
NickHOST
And it will feature Jen Taylor and Steve Downs as both Master Chief and Cortana, respectively.
NickHOST
But the book came out 25 years ago with the release of the original game.