{"id":7192,"date":"2013-03-14T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:32:19","slug":"woot-i-received-4-halo-books-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=7192","title":{"rendered":"Woot, I received 4 Halo books today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My lovely wife was nice enough to buy these for me. I would have had Primordium and The Thursday War sooner, I&#8217;m just not one for hardcover books. They take up too much space&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/primordium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7188\" alt=\"primordium\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/primordium-401x600.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/primordium-401x600.jpg 401w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/primordium-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/primordium.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765333074\/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i02?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Primorium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"outer_postBodyPS\">\n<div id=\"postBodyPS\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i>A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Since then, I\u2019ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies&#8211;a greater reach than any human before me. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I\u2019ll be able to finish the story.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans&#8211;Chakas and Riser&#8211;are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. For they have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end&#8211;a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of duty to all living things.<\/p>\n<p>In the company of a young girl and an old man, Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost and damaged Halo in search of a way home, an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within, and for the Librarian\u2019s tampering with human destiny.<\/p>\n<p>This journey will take them into the Palace of Pain, the domain of a powerful and monstrous intelligence who claims to be the Last Precursor, and who now has control of both this Halo and the fate of Forerunners and Humans alike.<\/p>\n<p>Called the Captive by Forerunners, and the Primordial by ancient human warriors, this intelligence has taken charge of, and retasked, the Master Builder\u2019s cruel researches into the Flood&#8211;which it may have itself unleashed on the galaxy more than ten thousand years before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thursday-war.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7189\" alt=\"thursday war\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thursday-war-392x600.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thursday-war-392x600.jpg 392w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thursday-war-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thursday-war.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/076532394X\/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">The Thursday War<\/a>:\u00a0Welcome to humanity\u2019s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI\u2019s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation\u2015keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection\u2015turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010. Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work while a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7190\" alt=\"Evolutions vol 1\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-1.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-1.jpg 260w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-1-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765354756\/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Halo: Evolutions Volume I: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>This volume contains stories by:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Tobias S. Buckell<br \/>\nB. K. Evenson<br \/>\nJonathan Goff<br \/>\nEric Nylund<br \/>\nFrank O&#8217;Connor<br \/>\nEric Raab<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7191\" alt=\"Evolutions vol 2\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-2.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-2.jpg 260w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Evolutions-vol-2-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765366959\/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i03?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Halo: Evolutions Volume II: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>This volume contains stories by:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Tessa Kum &amp; Jeff VanderMeer<br \/>\nKevin Grace<br \/>\nRobt McLees<br \/>\nKaren Traviss<br \/>\nFred Van Lente<\/p>\n<p>I am SO excited to finally read these. Now I can be completely caught up all all Halo books.<\/p>\n<p>With Silentium (third book in the Forerunner Saga) right around the corner, I need to get these read!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lovely wife was nice enough to buy these for me. I would have had Primordium and The Thursday War sooner, I&#8217;m just not one for hardcover books. They take up too much space&#8230; Primorium: A long time ago, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=7192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}