Series
Halo
Troy Denning, Kelly Gay, Eric S. Nylund, Greg Bear, Karen Traviss, Matt Forbeck, Tobias S. Buckell, uncredited, Frank O'Connor (game developer), Cassandra Rose Clarke, Joseph Staten, Kevin Grace, William C. Dietz, Alexander Wakeford, Brian Evenson, Brian Reed, Christie Golden, Dr. William Arthur Iqbal, Eric Raab, Erik Bear, Fred Van Lente, James Swallow, Jeff Easterling, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeremy Patenaude, John Jackson Miller, John Shirley, Jonathan Goff, Morgan Lockhart, Peter David, Robt McLees, Tessa Kum & Tim Lebbon · 34 novels · 3 novellas · 9 novelettes · 15 short stories · 5 anthologies · 2001–2026
Halo's tie-in novels expand the video-game franchise's war between humanity and the alien Covenant, and later the ancient Forerunners, across dozens of books by a rotating slate of authors overseen by the franchise's owner (Bungie, then 343 Industries). Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach, chronicling the Master Chief's childhood conscription into the Spartan program, launched the line alongside the first game in 2001, and it has since grown to cover side characters, prequels, and new eras of the setting. It's licensed franchise fiction rather than a single authored series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Halo at the centre, 5 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s19
- 2010s37
- 2020s10
Shape
34 novels · 3 novellas · 9 novelettes · 15 short stories · 5 anthologies
32 authors
Mood
Grim and intense: 53% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book43 of 66 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Glasslandsdarkest
- The Cole Protocolbrightest
- The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Colecalmest
- Last Lightmost intense