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Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time (Smart Pop) Paperback – March 11, 2007

by Glenn Yeffeth (Editor), Jennifer Thomason (Contributor)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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Halo Effect is an unauthorized collection of essays on the bestselling video game Halo. Examining the Halo phenomenon from every angle—from profiling the greatest Halo player who ever lived to providing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the wildly popular, virtual-reality Halo movies—this guide is the ultimate companion for anyone who wants to truly understand this amazingly successful video game. With discussions on the role of religion and science in the game, this collection of essays also looks into the creation of and community reaction to the launch of the Halo series.
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    1933771119
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Glenn Yeffeth is the editor of several anthologies in the Smart Pop series, including Anthology at the End of the Universe, Farscape Forever!, Five Seasons of Angel, Navigating the Golden Compass, Seven Seasons of Buffy, Taking the Red Pill, and What Would Sipowitz Do? He lives in Dallas, TX.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Smart Pop; First Edition (March 11, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933771119
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933771113
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.47 x 9 inches
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  1. Glenn Yeffeth

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    I spent fifteen years consulting and running management consultancies in Chicago, Dallas and London. In a burst of mid-life crisis, I chucked it to start BenBella Books, a traditional publishing house. Starting a old-fashioned publishing firm in the 21st century is crazy, I know, but it's turned out to be one of the best things I ever did.

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    Charlie W. Starr teaches English and Humanities at Great Lakes Christian College in Lansing Michigan where he also writes books and essays as time allows. He has published several books including biblical studies, science-fiction novels, a children's book entitled King Lesserlight's Crown and books on C. S. Lewis as well as chapters in a number of book anthologies. Besides writing for print, Charlie has acted as a consultant, writer, actor and/or producer on over a dozen short film projects.

    Charlie enjoys caving, writing, reading, watching bad television, and movies of every kind. His areas of expertise as a teacher include classic literature, film, all things C. S. Lewis and most things J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Frances Gordon
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2009
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Stunning.I cant believe the detail this book dives into.It gave me a whole new look at Halo.Stunning.
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David Fuchs
4.0 out of 5 stars Forget the Preview, Read the Book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2011
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I guess people shouldn't be chastised for just reading a preview. However the book itself is a collection of essays by some very knowledgeable folks. It's not a Halo Encyclopedia--it's much more a critical analysis of Halo --both from a real-world perspective and the fiction itself. The essay "You Are the Master Chief" is definitely the weakest, which is why its odd Amazon shows it as a preview.

Among the highlights of the mostly-great stuff in the book:
*Science advisor Kevin Grazier (he worked on BSG, among other shows) explains how the Halo Rings could actually work
*Dean Takahashi delves into the oft-forgotten history of how Halo was a buggy, unplayable mess mere months from release.
*How Halo has struck a cord with military personnel
*The cultural veneer of Halo and what influenced the developers, from Aliens to The Culture.
*The problems with adapting Halo to a film

Some of this is outdated now (the essays were all written pre-Halo 3, in 2006), but it remains a good collection of some great essays about the game. If you're a hardcore fan there's still some good stuff to get out of it, although it's probably best directed at a casual fan who doesn't know all the lore and history behind the games and fiction.

TLDR version: If you're a Halo fan who likes reading *about* Halo, you won't regret the purchase.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting look at the world of Halo.
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2012
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An interesting look at the world of Halo. Learned at lot of things I didn't know about the series and especially the science and thought behind the story.
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Andre Khouri
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2015
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was fun to read
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EdwardZ
3.0 out of 5 stars the author takes a personal perspective on the franchise
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2012
this book takes on perception and on military culture head on, of course the fan boys will be outraged, true, grow up, missing some details, hey wake up the author is ranting, self proclaimed "crank" he doesn't want to write a halo revised encyclopedia, he takes directly on the halo universe and the master chief as a reflection of their makers, about how people need to believe in fiction in order to escape reality.

my opinion, if you don't want to expend the money, get the sample, read it you will get and idea then its your choice, didn't like the book?, man up, don't like your life, change it, didn't like the ending of reach? man up its only a game.

I like fps, even played halo games, I am a veteran and have seen way too much reality, grow up and quit taking video games like its real, in real life you don't get to re-spawn after you get blown up. War is unforgiving, nobody comes out unscathed, everyone gets their share.

Ed.
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Tavis
1.0 out of 5 stars Whacky math
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014
Ok the math is all wrong, there are 7874000000000 Kg/km3 in 1 cubic Kilometer, witch puts the mass of halo at 8.8x10^20 if the volume of halo is 224,000,000 and half that space is empty has stated in said book and the mass of steel is around 7874 kg per cubic meter. "1.7x10^17 kilograms, or 1,700 million billion kilograms" this is also wrong it should say 170 million billion. I could just keep going but every number giving is wrong and contradicted by the next number given.
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Electromotive Force
1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously? This is the worst publication of HALO...EVER!
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2009
I'll admit: I do not own this piece of garbage. It'd be a waste of trees to purchase it. Thank God for Amazon's preview image up in the top of this page, because it saved me from making the mistake of buying and reading this, and then subsequently throwing it in the dumpster where it belongs.

For a critic that claims to have read Eric Nylund's "The Fall of Reach", your resultant opinion of nearly every HALO facet you commented on was complete crap of the highest order -- you couldn't have been further from the truth!

From telling blatant lies [that the Master Chief does not need food, rest, etc.] to chracterizing him as a faceless, emotionless killing machine, to basically all of your ranting and that especially stupid grin of yours, you're deliberately misleading people.

Maybe you're the dweeb you continually ridicule in your childish words. Maybe you're the F'd up one.

I suggest you re-read The Fall of Reach, if you even read it at all.

No one should even bother to preview this waste of paper!
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Doggxs
1.0 out of 5 stars If you care about the Halo Canon at all, DO NOT BUY
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2010
This book appears that it was written by someone who knows very little about the Halo canon. It is as if he wrote it as he was playing through the game and based his observations on the Master Chief on how HE played the game, not how the MC actually has been portrayed.
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C3
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it, take a chance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2017
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Very interesting read, lost on most though lol (too many sheep)
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Julien L.
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2016
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It's okay. This book show interresting things around the Halo machine after the second Halo game.
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S. Walmsley
3.0 out of 5 stars What it says on the cover
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2007
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This Halo book is not one of the best ones I've read but it does make for a good read. Its not a novel but simply some game reviewers, reporters, scientists, lecturers, writers, novelists look on certain elements or aspects of the game but more on its impact on people who've played it. It talks about halo's affect on machinima, what differences there are between Halo's science and real science, the mentality behind master chiefs popularity, religious aspects, how a halo movie would need to play out, a brief history on FPS and how halo effected others, comparing halo to guerilia warfare, how the military is using halo to train its troops and one very interesting article about the greatest halo player in the world, Zyos. So yeah theres quite a bit in there, some interesting, some not but mostly it makes for a fascinating read on well, what the effects of halo are and is written by several literate people who just happen to be fans. Pick it up if your interested in some history/ halo's influence.
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