Halo: First Strike

Eric S. NylundSichuan Science and Technology Press2005

Rating 4.0
Chapters
7
Series
Halo
ISBN
9787536458512

Tags

Literature Foreign Literature Military Science FictionSpace OperaSpace FleetSci-Fi ElementGame AdaptationTranslationSichuanAmerican Author

Summary

Halo: First Strike is the third novel written by American author Eric Nylund for the Halo series, originally titled Halo: First Strike. Together with the first volume, Halo: The Fall of Reach, and the second, Halo: The Flood, it forms the Chinese translation of the Halo trilogy, published in Sichuan Science and Technology Press's "World Popular Science Fiction Series." The story follows directly from the game Halo: Combat Evolved and leads into Halo 2: after destroying the ringworld Halo, the Spartan John-117 (the Master Chief), who escaped successfully, gathers what remains of the scattered human forces and strives to return to Earth. But Reach was not completely destroyed by the Covenant, and many of John's subordinates are still alive—because Reach holds a "relic" left by Halo's builders that the Covenant covets. With superhuman, tireless fighting, John seizes an enemy ship and fights his way back to Reach to rescue his subordinates, who have already obtained the "relic." On the return voyage to Earth, they discover that the Covenant has assembled some five hundred warships and is preparing a massive assault on Earth—the human homeworld is in mortal peril. The book alternates between space fleet battles and small-scale ground combat, bearing a strong military science-fiction flavor, and is an important work for understanding the storyline connecting the main Halo games.

Editor's review

《光晕》三部曲是二十一世纪初游戏改编小说中颇具代表性的一套。它以销量惊人的同名Xbox游戏为背景，却并未写成简单攻略式的贴图故事，而是用正经的军事科幻笔法补全游戏镜头之外的战略层、舰队层与士兵层。本册《初次反击》在三部曲中承上启下，作用尤其关键：它填补了《战斗进化》结局与续作开局之间那段读者最想知道“中间发生了什么”的空白，把士官长的逃亡线、致远星的存亡悬念和地球保卫战的引信一并拧紧。作者尼伦德本身是化学与化学物理出身、又长期从事游戏世界观架构的文字工作者，写技术细节与战术流程时带着可信的“工业感”，读起来像作战日志，也像太空史诗。译者蔡立胜的译文通俗流畅，保留了军事术语的力度。四川科学技术出版社“世界流行科幻丛书”版本的装帧与排版都中规中矩，适合收藏与并排阅读。如果你只想读一本游戏改编小说来体会这个类型的上限，这本足以入选。

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Reading tips

  1. 建议按《致远星的沦陷》《洪魔》《初次反击》的顺序阅读，本册的许多人物与伏笔来自前两册。
  2. 阅读时可以把书中战役与游戏《光晕：战斗进化》的结尾、《光晕2》的开场对照，能更直观理解这部小说的叙事任务。
  3. 遇到舰队编制、舰船型号与武器名称不必死记，抓住“谁在守、谁在撤、谁在赌”这条人物线即可顺畅读完。

About the publisher

Sichuan Science and Technology Press China · Founded in 1982

Sichuan Science and Technology Press features science and technology, popular science, and science fiction publishing, while also covering agricultural technology and medical and health books. In science fiction, the press has continued to release works by Liu Cixin, including The Wandering Earth: Selected Short Stories of Liu Cixin, boxed sets of Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction classics, and masterworks such as Ringworld, Snow Crash, and Minus Zero, organized into series including the Chinese Science Fiction Cornerstone Series and the World Science Fiction Masters Series. In popular science, classics such as George Gamow's One Two Three... Infinity reflect its orientation toward public science communication. Its author resources in the library include Liu Cixin, Yao Haijun, and Cheng Xi, among other science fiction and popular science editors and translators; the library contains 190 titles, classified mainly as popular science, science fiction, quality fiction, and foreign literature. Public information is limited, and the above is summarized only from the library's titles and existing profile.

Contents

  1. Prelude: Reach
  2. Part One: Threshold
  3. Part Two: Castle Base
  4. Part Three: Rescue
  5. Part Four: Strategy
  6. Part Five: The Massacre at Eridanus Secundus
  7. Part Six: Operation: First Strike

FAQ

《光晕·初次反击》和游戏是什么关系？ 它是游戏《光晕：战斗进化》之后的官方小说，讲述游戏第一代结局到《光晕2》开场之间发生的故事，原名为 Halo: First Strike，由埃里克·尼伦德于2003年创作。
这本书是《光晕》系列的第几部？ 按中文版出版顺序，它是《光晕》三部曲的第三部，前两部分别为《光晕·致远星的沦陷》和《光晕·洪魔》。
没玩过游戏能读懂吗？ 可以。小说本身叙事是连贯的，但若提前了解一下“士官长”“斯巴达战士”“圣约人”“致远星”这几个设定，读起来会更顺畅。
中译本由谁翻译、哪个出版社出版？ 中文版由蔡立胜翻译，四川科学技术出版社出版，收入“世界流行科幻丛书”，2005年出版，ISBN 为 9787536458512。
书名有时写作“光环”是怎么回事？ Halo 系列在中文圈有“光晕”“光环”等多种译法，台版小说还常译作《最后一战》系列，指的都是同一世界观与同一部原著。

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About the author

Eric S. Nylund Author

Eric S. Nylund is a science fiction author whose nationality, birth and death dates, and other public information are limited. Chinese-language readers mainly know him through the Chinese editions of his Halo series works, of which the library holds two: Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike. Set against the military science fiction background of the Halo universe, these two novels unfold around interstellar war, soldier training, and the survival of humanity, with tight pacing and attention to tactical detail and to the choices characters make on nightmarish battlefields. The works are often classified under premium fiction, science fiction, literature, and foreign literature, suggesting that his writing combines genre entertainment with a certain literary quality. For readers who enjoy military science fiction and game tie-in novels, Nylund's two works offer a representative entry point and have made him one of the more noticed foreign authors in the Chinese dissemination of the series.