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An omnibus edition containing three classic novels (The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike) set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!<br/><br/>An omnibus edition of three updated, previously published, beloved Halo novels (The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike), with a new Foreword and Adjunct material!<br/><br/>The Fall of Reach<br/>The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth to hundreds of interstellar colonies, but the Unified Earth Government is struggling to control this vast empire. Dr. Catherine Halsey offers a solution and it starts with seventy-five children—trained to become super-soldiers to deliver humanity from seething colonial insurrections that threaten to erupt into full-blown interplanetary civil war. But an even greater peril lurks among the stars: the Covenant. A theocratic alliance of alien species hellbent on cleansing humanity from the galaxy.<br/><br/>This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and his legendary heroism in leading the fight against humanity’s annihilation.<br/><br/>The Flood<br/>Having barely escaped the final battle for Reach aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, the crew of this lone ship—including the Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana—arrive at a place of untold mystery and peril: Halo. A massive artificial ringworld built one hundred thousand years ago by a long-lost civilization known as the Forerunners.<br/><br/>Forced to flee to the ring’s surface by a Covenant fleet that followed them from Reach, the Autumn’s crew find themselves in a desperate battle for survival while the Master Chief and Cortana uncover the Halo construct’s terrible purpose—even as a far more terrifying enemy than the Covenant is released and all sentient life in the galaxy is threatened.<br/><br/>This is the official novelization of Halo: Combat Evolved, the game that launched the Xbox console and began Halo's generational legacy.<br/><br/>First