New Releases by Eric Nylund

Collects Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War #1-4! Before the time of mankind''s exodus from the twelve colonies (as told in the current award winning Battlestar Galactica series on SY FY and the returned menace of the Cylons, a war was fought between man and machine. A story that has never before been told, until now.... Dynamite Entertainment presents the CYLON WAR written by Joshua (Frank Frazetta''s Death Dealer) Ortega and Eric (Halo) Nylund, and illustrated by Galactica veteran artist Nigel Raynor. Fully authorized by SY FY and the show producers, the world of Galactica and the first "apocalypse" with the Cylons is explored. Features a complete cover gallery.

A Thousand Drunken Monkeys, the second novel in the Hero of Thera series.The Kingdom of Thera is a crossroads to many other worlds and realities. Here a secret war between the gods plays out via their proxy mortal champions. These player-champions use all the augmented-reality interfaces and game mechanics that role-playing and video-gamers know and love. Unbeknownst to the gods, however, only three unlikely heroes can save the Game.Join Hektor Saint-Savage, Marine, ex-death row inmate, and martial artist extraordinaire; Morgana Nox, shapeshifting druid-thief and trickster; and the cantankerous dwarf, Elmac Arguson, barkeep and former General of all the Armies of High Hill-as they punch, blast, stab, sneak, and slither their way through the second Hero of Thera novel. Can they outwit, outfight, and outrun assassins armed with a distressing collection of lethal poisons? The Imperial Knight Champion of Chaos? Feisty gnomes with slide rules? And a horde of a thousand inebriated simians? There''s only one way to find out...Continue Playing the Game? Yes / No

The New York Times bestselling origin story of the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! The twenty-sixth century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope. At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top-secret program that could bring an end to the conflict…and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six-year-old boy named John. And Halsey could never guess that this child will eventually become the final hope against an even greater peril engulfing the galaxy—the inexorable confrontation with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant. This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and of his legendary, unstoppable heroism in leading the resistance against humanity’s possible extinction.

The New York Times bestseller—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! The twenty-sixth century. Once considered clandestine, the Spartan-II program has now gone public. Tales of armored super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultra-secret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as “Section Three” devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. It will need hundreds of willing soldiers, though—and one more Spartan—to get the job done. The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant vessels race to claim it and change the course of the Human-Covenant War. But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own…

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. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human-occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best--an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality. . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.

For five years, this sci-fi phenomenon reigned as one of the most powerful dramas on television. Dynamite proudly expands the mythology of the Reimagined BSG universe by collecting the sensational “Cylon War”, “Final Five”, and “Ghosts” miniseries, plus a 16-page "Starbuck" story never before available to the comic book market!

BE A HERO OF THERADo you want to play a game?Think you''re good? Really good?Then you might be ready to play The Game ... where clans are sponsored by actual Demon Lords, Gods and Goddesses, Lovecraftian nightmares, and every other demi-entities of power.Still with me?Not running back to your massively multiplayer on-line games, shooters, or table-top role-playing where you can re-roll or respawn after you''ve been blasted and buried?Cool.Then roll up your sleeves and enter Thera, a kingdom at the crossroads of many worlds. Don''t worry, there are all the usual augmented-reality interfaces, level progression, and game mechanics that you love, but Thera is also real, so are its inhabitants ... as is your new custom-designed avatar.Oh, your previous body? We''ve disposed of that old thing so you won''t be distracted trying to get back to your so called "real" life.Did we mention the stakes of The Game? Nothing less than all Creation--every world in every universe and reality.Thus, Death Row inmate, Hector Savage enters Thera, eager to use the gaming skills he''s cultivated his entire life. Nothing has prepared him, though, for the schemes of Abyssal Lords, barbarian ghosts, evil wizards, and other bad guys who have plans for him--all before he advances to fifth level!Can he win?Can he survive the Free Trial?Find out in this latest entry of the LitRPG genre, Hero of Thera.

Hi. My name is Konrad Scalagari. I''ve written this book just for you. I know, this is supposed to be a blurb telling you about the book. The thing is, while you''re reading this, everyone else is reading a description of a science-fiction adventure with super soldiers, guts and glory, and spaceship battles.It''s just part of the magic to cover my tracks while I explain this to you. I know you don''t understand yet... but you''re a member of the Scalagari family, too.Who are the Scalagaris? Good question. The Scalagaris are one of many highly secretive magical families in the world. We specialize in using knots to bind enchantments. Oh, and we''re criminals-sort of. Think of us as part Robin Hood and part magical mafia. Capisce?The Enchanted Knot is the story of how I figured this out, and went from clueless teenager living in a trailer park to being rich and infamous (and landing on INTERPOL''s most wanted list).Read this. Right now! You''ll need to know these things when we come looking for you.

Halo a été détruit, et avec lui la menace qu''il faisait peser sur toute forme de vie dans l''univers. Mais les Covenants continuent leurs assauts sans répit. Heureusement, sur leur route se dresse John 117, le Master Chief, le dernier champion de l''humanité. Tandis qu''une petite équipe de Spartans survivants se rend à la surface de Reach, où le Dr Halsey a découvert qu''un ancien secret pourrait bien changer le cours de la guerre, le Master Chief et Cortana se dirigent vers une flotte massive de vaisseaux ennemis. Car le pire est arrivé : les Covenants ont découvert l''emplacement de la Terre et sont bien décidés à la détruire ainsi que tous ceux qui s''opposeraient encore à la volonté implacable de leurs Prophètes.

Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with the fourth book in the Resisters series. As Ethan and the other Resisters explore Titan Base, they learn more about human technology prior to the alien Ch''zar''s conquering of Earth. But before they can fully understand the weapons now at their disposal, the Ch''zar find their new base! The Resisters have just one chance left—if they can destroy the aliens'' huge industrial complex, they can buy themselves some time. But to do it, they''ll have to infiltrate the Ch''zar collective and risk being absorbed by the hive mind.

Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with the third book in the Resisters series. Despite their recent victory over the alien Ch''zar, Ethan Blackwood and his squadron have no time to rest. The Ch''zar are still relentlessly searching for the Seed Bank, the Resisters'' secret base—and they''re getting dangerously close. If they find it, all the adults in the Seed Bank will be absorbed into the the aliens'' collective mind. Now Ethan and his friends must evade all Ch''zar scouts and find a new home for the Resistance. Once again, it''s all up to the kids.

Featuring: Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz

Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with this riveting children''s debut. Twelve-year-old Ethan Blackwood has always known exactly what he wanted—to win the state soccer championship, get into the best high school, and become an astronaut. Then he meets Madison and Felix, who tell him something . . . insane. They claim that 50 years ago, aliens took over the earth, and everyone past puberty is under their mind control. Ethan doesn''t believe it. But then he sees for himself the aliens'' monster bug robots and the incredible way that Madison and Felix have learned to fight them. So Ethan Blackwood has a choice: he can go back to his normal, suburban, protected lie of a life—or he can become a Resister. This science fiction on the lines of Scott Westerfield and Cory Doctorow for middle graders is now available in paperback.

Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund again brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with the riveting second book in The Resisters series. Even as he trains to be a pilot for the Resisters, twelve-year-old Ethan Blackwood is still reeling from the news that aliens called the Ch''zar have taken over the world and put all the adults under their mind control. Now the Ch''zar mechanical bug armies are growing. The Resisters need more pilots like Ethan, kids who aren''t afraid to think for themselves. Ethan knows just where the Ch''zar send troublemakers like that—to Sterling Reform School. Can Ethan find a way to break into Sterling and recruit new fighters before the enemy discovers the Resisters'' underground base?

Eliot and Fiona Post are twins caught up in an epic custody battle between their mother''s and father''s families. Their mother is the immortal goddess Atropos, the eldest Fate, and their father is Lucifer, Lord of the infernals, a diabolical fallen angel. The families have put them through rigorous, life-threatening challenges, and together they''ve risen to combat them in amazing ways. But now they are facing the greatest trial of all—high school. Paxington Unviersity is no normal high school—it''s a place where gods and goddesses, warriors and socerers learn to harness their power, where a debate in class can end in a duel, and your classmates aren''t simply friends or enemies, but allies in battle or threats to your life. To flunk is to die--only the toughest graduate. As Fiona and Eliot struggle to keep up their grades by surviving the rigorous training, both families are watching. High school is bad enough, but imagine being caught in the midst of an immortal/infernal war... At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost—but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge. In such a far-reaching conflict, not many of the stories of these heroes, both human and alien, have a chance to become legend. This collection holds eleven stories that dive into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also those who vowed to wipe humanity out of existence. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Nothing interesting ever happened to fifteen-year-old orphans Eliot and Fiona while they''ve lived in the strict, oppressive household of their grandmother. A chance visit, however, reveals that there is much more to the twins. They are the offspring of a goddess and Lucifer, Prince of Darkness. Now, to settle the epic custody battle between these two families, the fallen angels create three diabolical temptations, and the gods fashion three heroic trials to test Eliot and Fiona. More than ever they need to stick together to survive and to learn how to use their budding supernatural abilities . . . for family allegiances are ever-shifting in the ancient, secret world they have entered. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.