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Halo: Epitaph (32) Paperback – February 27, 2024

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An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!

Stripped of armor, might, and memory, the legendary Forerunner warrior known as the Didact was torn from the physical world following his destructive confrontation with the Master Chief and sent reeling into the mysterious depths of a seemingly endless desert wasteland. This once powerful and terrifying figure is now a shadow of his former self—gaunt, broken, desiccated, and alone. But this wasteland is not as barren as it seems. A blue light glints from a thin spire in the far distance…

Thus begins the Didact’s great journey—the final fate of one of the galaxy’s most enigmatic and pivotal figures.
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Kelly Gay is a USA TODAY bestselling author and the critically acclaimed creator of the Charlie Madigan urban fantasy series. She is a multipublished author with works translated into several languages. She is a two-time RITA nominee, an ARRA nominee, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, and a SIBA Book Award Long List finalist. Kelly is also a recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council’s Fellowship Grant in Literature. Within the Halo universe, she has authored the widely lauded novels Halo: The Rubicon Protocol (a USA TODAY bestseller), Halo: Point of Light, and Halo: Renegades, the novella Halo: Smoke and Shadow, and the short story “Into the Fire,” featured in Halo: Fractures. She can be found online at KellyGay.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books (February 27, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1668017539
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1668017531
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
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    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 241 ratings

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Kelly Gay writes the critically acclaimed 'Charlie Madigan' urban fantasy series. Her work has been nominated for a double RITA, an ARRA, a Goodreads Choice Award, and landed on SIBA's Long List Book Award Finalists. Kelly is also a recipient of North Carolina Arts Council's fellowship grant in Literature. She is published in Young Adult fiction as Kelly Keaton. Learn more about Kelly at www.kellygay.com.

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Customers say the storyline is good with a lot of tie-ins. They also appreciate the content depth, saying it provides much more context for Halo 4, 5, and even a bit of Halo 6.

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Customers find the storyline good, interesting, and provide more context for Halo 4.

"...Great storytelling, the Didact is the most compelling character in all of Halo, and Kelly Gay did a fantastic job fleshing him out in this amazing..." Read more

"...This book is a great addition to the forerunner saga. I even would consider it book #4 instead of it being a standalone for obvious author reasons...." Read more

"...Definitely an interesting book to read! Enjoy!" Read more

"Good storytelling, with a different view of the Halo universe than we would normally expect. I definitely recommend reading it." Read more

3 customers mention "Content depth"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the book provides much more context for Halo 4 and 5.

"...Important events are recapped and summarized, and it provides much more context for Halo 4, 5, and even a bit of Infinite...." Read more

"...But she did it - and she did it wonderfully. She gave us insight, and therefore closure, with two of the most important characters in the Halo..." Read more

"...Reader should have read the forerunner series at least. Interesting read on the life of the Didact. Felt like book four of the Forerunner series." Read more

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So much to say and so much that I don’t want to spoil. This book is a great addition to the forerunner saga. I even would consider it book #4 instead of it being a standalone for obvious author reasons. This book brings a lot of forerunner plot lines to a completion that were otherwise left in the air. In mimicry of Greg bear, there is plenty left to be enigmatic and to speculate on. This book also brings a satisfying expalaination and “bandaid” in my opinion to the events that transpire in and between halo 4 & 5 specifically. With maybe a nod or two at infinite :) have fun
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Mark R. Mcginnis
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic book that ties up many loose threads from the Halo 4 and 5 era
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
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Highly recommend for any fan of Halo. This is a fitting end and follow up to Greg Bear's Forerunner Trilogy, though this book is also written as if it is the reader's first Halo novel.

Important events are recapped and summarized, and it provides much more context for Halo 4, 5, and even a bit of Infinite.

Great storytelling, the Didact is the most compelling character in all of Halo, and Kelly Gay did a fantastic job fleshing him out in this amazing book!
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Emphatic Titan
5.0 out of 5 stars Book #4 of forerunner series
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
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So much to say and so much that I don’t want to spoil. This book is a great addition to the forerunner saga. I even would consider it book #4 instead of it being a standalone for obvious author reasons. This book brings a lot of forerunner plot lines to a completion that were otherwise left in the air. In mimicry of Greg bear, there is plenty left to be enigmatic and to speculate on. This book also brings a satisfying expalaination and “bandaid” in my opinion to the events that transpire in and between halo 4 & 5 specifically. With maybe a nod or two at infinite :) have fun
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book #4 of forerunner series
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
So much to say and so much that I don’t want to spoil. This book is a great addition to the forerunner saga. I even would consider it book #4 instead of it being a standalone for obvious author reasons. This book brings a lot of forerunner plot lines to a completion that were otherwise left in the air. In mimicry of Greg bear, there is plenty left to be enigmatic and to speculate on. This book also brings a satisfying expalaination and “bandaid” in my opinion to the events that transpire in and between halo 4 & 5 specifically. With maybe a nod or two at infinite :) have fun
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story with a lot of tie-ins
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024
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This review has some spoilers around Halo lore.

As at least one other review notes, this book takes awhile to get to any sort of action, and the action that it does include is more of a virtual conflict as they are in the Domain. I had hoped that this book would reveal the origins of the species in Halo Infinite, but it does not.

This book tries to tie up a lot of the AI war that they triggered before Halo Infinite, and are seemingly trying to undo, but its most important pieces were providing redemption for the [original] Didact, loosely explaining what happened to the IsoDidact (from the Forerunner Saga), connecting ancient humanity to the Domain, and explaining a bit more about what the Domain is. The best part of this book is the explanation of the Domain and the explanation of a few tangential pieces to the Forerunner Sago books, thereby answering some more questions about the Forerunners and even ancient humanity.

Like any long-running story and lore, this story struggles a little bit with the plot holes introduced in other stories, like how the Guardians are planet-policing machines that never got used in the original war against the Flood. It also does not touch on the point that, almost implicitly, the Precursors may still exist in other galaxies due to the nature of the Domain (and the recent book series involving Guilty Spark ending with Halo: Point of Light, also written by Kelly Gay), and so may the IsoDidact and therefore other Forerunners.

Largest spoiler: I removed one star because this book focuses on the Didact the Domain, but it ultimately removes both from relevance in the Halo universe even though it takes a lot of pains to say that the Domain needs to be opened to more minds in order to heal.
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Harry
5.0 out of 5 stars Kelly crushed it
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2024
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I’ve enjoyed Kelly’s other works in the Halo canon, but nothing so much as this. She had an incredibly difficult task here, weaving together so many different threads across so many different books and games. But she did it - and she did it wonderfully. She gave us insight, and therefore closure, with two of the most important characters in the Halo Universe - especially in regard to Cortana. This is the missing thread that would have made both Halo 5 and the events immediately preceding Halo: Infinite so much clearer.

Thank you, Kelly. We’re lucky to have you.
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Corruptinator
5.0 out of 5 stars Essentially Didact's Inferno, A Good One!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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Years ago, my first Halo game was Halo 3... GASP! How dare I skip the first two games! Yeah, I know, and well... This is also the first Halo Book I've read...

*INTENSE ANGRY CROWD NOISES...*

Ok! Hold on! Hear me out on this one, I've been curious to know to what happened to the Didact after Halo 4 and other incursions related to this character, after all... Didact was such a criminally underrated character/villain that had so much potential. Anywho, this book really does deliver the premise of the story about what happened to Didact afterwards.

Respectfully not going to spoil anything, but I will say this: Science Fiction aside, it had Dante's Inferno vibes all over it! Didact's Great Journey has already begun...

Definitely an interesting book to read! Enjoy!
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HHWD
5.0 out of 5 stars Forerunner follow up
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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This is not a stand alone book nor an action book. Reader should have read the forerunner series at least. Interesting read on the life of the Didact. Felt like book four of the Forerunner series.
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A Q
5.0 out of 5 stars Forerunner family structures and traditions. AI disease and cure. Flood and Precursors.
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024
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Kelly Gay does an excellent portrayal of the sacrifices families make for their loved ones as well as their betrayals, reunions, and trials they go through for personal growth.

This book does the halo lore justice in general too. Read on for more details and possible spoilers.

If you want to know what happen to the Didact during his lifetime and his "afterlife", then this is the book for you! If also explains more about the ancient Humans, Flood, Forerunners, and Precursors.

You will be pleased with the last appearance of Cortana.

Lastly, this book helps tie in factors between the video games HALO 5 and HALO 6. Unless you were a HALO lore nerd by the end of HALO 3, you might not have realized some of the deeper implications the flood conflict had on all types of life and technology. It completely answers what has been presented in the story so far.
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Joshua DeNio
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for any fan of the Halo franchise
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
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Good storytelling, with a different view of the Halo universe than we would normally expect. I definitely recommend reading it.
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MaruChii_
5.0 out of 5 stars Una historia preciosa.
Reviewed in Mexico on June 18, 2024
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Como una fiel persona seguidora de la saga, puedo decir que la historia de redención y de redescubrimiento del Didacta concluye de una manera perfecta para lo que representa el personaje.

343 está atando algunos de los cabos que quedaron sueltos durante la Saga del Reclamador, resolviendo algunas dudas, pero también planteando algunas cuentas.

Me encanta la forma en que la autora trata a este personaje, explorando algunas de sus emociones y pensamientos luego de ser compuesto, así mismo, esta novela nos da información sobre el origen y las acciones tomadas por algunos personajes a los que no puedo mencionar porque arruinaría la experiencia de leerlo y descubrirlo por cuenta propia.

Solo me queda decir que el viaje del Didacta no ha terminado y que seguro hay algo planeado a futuro para este personaje, la figura de lo que alguna vez fue el Forerunner más importante e influyente en su tiempo.
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Francois Bernard
5.0 out of 5 stars Great product!
Reviewed in Canada on March 11, 2024
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Great recap of Forunner story.
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Charlie
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2024
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Amazing book well worth the wait after pre ordering
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Martin Nikolov
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2024
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Lovely book really good story
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