In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. When the Prophets send their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite--to destroy the the Outer Colonies and acquire the location of Earth, a three-man renegade squad led by Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes fights to hold together a shaky alliance between human survivors and the...

Comprehensive guide to one of the most successful video game franchises in history, the "Halo Encyclopedia" details the origins of the game along with the characters, weapons, vehicles, equipment, and locations from "Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, " and "Halo Wars." Created in full collaboration with Microsoft, it is packed with hundreds of images, illustrations, and technical drawings that highlight all the information fans and newcomers to the...

"This original anthology of all-new stories harkens back to the Golden Age of SF, when science fiction was filled with tales from our own solar system, at a time when no one knew what lay on the surface of our nearest galactic neighbors and speculation ran rampant. And though that old solar system was "disproved" in the 1960s, when space probes showed that the real worlds were very different from those of our imaginations, these linked anthologies...