HALO: for video game geeks only

[AndyP]

Ok I know it's kinda weird but I'm reading the Halo books right now. I have to say for a book based on a video game, I'm really impressed. If you play Halo, you should pick them up. The first one tells the story about Master Chief and the beginning of the spartan program. The second one is about the first game, but gives you the prospective of many different people on the planet. The third is about how he gets back to Earth to fight in the second video game (between the first and second game). If you can put your X-Box controllers down long enough I suggest checking these books out.

Wait, who am I kidding, there aren't any people who play video games looking in this forum. :freak: :freak: :freak:

[Lerkfish]

1. I play halo occasionally

but its on my mac, no xbox, so no halo2 yet.

thanks for posting.

[Autumn Colors]

2. I don't play, but

I frequent the forums at http://www.redvsblue.com and it's overflowing with gamers (esp. Halo). I know for a fact that a few of them lurk/post over here at DU.

[sam sarrha]

3. i read them for Crimson Skies, i have played Multiplayer additively 6yrs

I got halo, and a platform but i cant get it to work..

[dave123williams]

4. Nah; I'm just too preoccupied with Counter Strike...

[datadiva]

5. Say What?

I don't play Halo, but I play RPG's. Way too much! :7

[Angry Girl]

7. I just got a copy of Morrowind! And I fear it.

It will suck up all my precious time like some demented black hole. It lurks there, in its box, waiting, waiting, waiting....

[Angry Girl]

6. My (cheesy) needler says otherwise! n/t

[Dream of the Flood]

8. May I make a recommendation

As a fan of the HALO video game, I discovered a book by a sci-fi writer, Larry Niven, called Ringworld. It was written in 1970 and there are now three sequels written in 1980, 1996 and 2004. It is probably not as action packed as I'd imagine a HALO book would be, but I'm fairly sure Niven's Ringworld was the inspiration for the concept of the HALO ring worlds. Niven's is huge though--93 million miles in circumference, one million miles wide with walls a thousand miles high, spinning around a white dwarf star at 770 miles/sec to produce earthlike gravity and shadow squares in a smaller circle nearer to the star to produce 30 hour days on the ringworld's surface. It details the adventures of Louis Wu and his motley crew of a human woman, an alien called a Puppeteer which might look like a very small brontosaurus with two heads and a cat-like alien called a kzin. They explore the ringworld which consists of strange technologies such as floating cities. It's a bit slow, certainly not full of action, but it has alot of surprise twists if that's your sort of thing. If you take up my recommendation, enjoy!