narrative truth and reconciliation
Today, Halo: Renegades – Kelly Gay’s sequel to her 2017 novella Halo: Smoke and Shadow – has finally released! Let me distill the essence of everything I’m about to say into less than a dozen words… This is the best Halo novel since Silentium.
Read More Halo: Renegades – Non-Spoiler ReviewI hope your calendars are marked for February 19th because we are just days away from the release of Halo: Renegades! We’re barely a quarter of the way into 2019 and we’ve already received a wealth of amazing Halo content – from the monthly releases of Anne Toole’s Lone Wolf comic series, to Cassandra Clarke’s deep-dive into the invasion of […]
Read More I Interviewed Kelly Gay! – A Primer for HALO: RENEGADES“With Dr. Chen, a dangerous ex-ONI scientist, in her sights, Spartan Linda-058 and her AI companion must find a way to end the threat posed by Chen and evacuate the endangered humans in the settlement. But as the Covenant prepare to stage an assault, Linda discovers that Chen holds the key to a secret that […]
Read More Halo: Lone Wolf #2 – Review“If the Covenant hadn’t attacked, she would just be getting out of school. Maybe meeting up with Victor to do homework and talk about his holo-film.The normal world felt like a dream, fragmented and half-forgotten.” One day, life is normal. You go to school, to work, or you have a day in and spend the […]
Read More Halo: Battle Born – On Lost Childhood and the Value of YA Literature“Sent on a covert mission without the rest of her team, Spartan Linda-058’s skills in infiltration and marksmanship are called upon to end the threat posed by a wanted scientist on a distant planet. With only an ONI AI at her side, Linda must fight through both the dregs of the Covenant and the hostility […]
Read More Halo: Lone Wolf #1 – ReviewOver the course of this year, I have found myself getting back into the swing of writing short stories just for the fun of it. With the death knell of 2018 upon us, I thought I might as well publish one of them. The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice has long been one of my […]
Read More ‘Solving Orpheus’ – A Short LGBT+ Love Story“Cortana. It’s not over. Not yet.” Despite having done seven consecutive weeks of content, I find I still have the drive to put out more before 2018 is out! Earlier this year, I followed up my character studies of the Master Chief in the original trilogy with an in-depth examination of Halo 4 (which, incidentally, was my […]
Read More Halo 4 – Crafting a Masterpiece of Character