Halo: Contact Harvest | Spartan Chatter
Back in my day we had two sticks and a book... And we had to share the book!
While Sgt. Johnson might have had a rock to share, we had a great novel to chit chat about during the latest Spartan Chatter. As part of the ongoing Audiobook Club in partnership with Simon & Schuster, we kicked things off with Joseph Staten's Halo: Contact Harvest. Franchise member Alex 'Haruspis' Wakeford, joined us to talk about Sgt. Johnson's auspicious beginnings.
Some Halo fans might say Contact Harvest is required reading and if you don't have a copy of your own yet, you can head to Audible and grab your own.
COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS
Catch up on the community book club with great shouts from folks in our official Discord server!
- DDog Dazamaan: Loved this book, especially the story of the two unlikely friends in the Covenant.
- No pings please: Out of all the Halo novels, this is my favorite, hands down! I don’t re-read stuff often, but I’ll make an exception for Contact Harvest.
- Massctrl: Listened to this book for the first time many years ago. Excellent read!
- SporkHALO: Eight chapters in, I think I'm more hooked than I was with Fall of Reach!
- GuyverTronNIИ: Good choice! Contact Harvest is a great place to begin for new readers or anyone wanting to revisit the stories. One of my favorite parts is getting a behind-the-scenes look at the politics of the Covenant and seeing how the Prophets we know in the games come to power.
- CIA391WIKI: That prologue, I dare say, is haunting! I totally get why it makes some folks uncomfortable.
- Austin @ JumperScape: That prologue made me really consider the idea that maybe humanity needed this conflict. Something to pull it away from eating itself.
- NsanittyyJUMP: I loved finding out how the Choppers were originally plowing tools meant as a peace offering to the colonists. The Engineers are so kind!
- EnderfortYT: I loved Contact Harvest. It's the fifth book I read in the Halo series after The Forerunner Saga and Broken Circle.
- Twogood4hisown: I liked all the details on interstellar logistics, planetary AI, and colonial farming. I also liked the view of the pre-Covenant Insurrectionist conflict. It was messy, and one could easily see UNSC efforts doing more harm than good.
- Woodsgump: This was one good read, and my first Halo novel. I liked how Contact Harvest focused on Johnson’s early days and his travels on Harvest, while we also get to see a bit of Jenkins himself.
- pins before posting: There’s an interesting feeling in this novel. The “vibe” of life itself feels different in the Halo universe before the Human-Covenant war.
We'll be doing 4 more novels between now and October so stay tuned for the reveal of the July selection!