In 2001, Eric Nylund’s Halo: The Fall of Reach novel laid the foundations of a franchise that is this year celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary.

The Fall of Reach introduced us to the SPARTAN-II program, the brainchild of Dr. Catherine Halsey, and told the origin story of John-117—the Master Chief—from his childhood up to the events that lead directly into the first game, Halo: CE.

We are thrilled to announce that a full cast audio drama version of The Fall of Reach is in production—featuring Tim Dadabo as narrator, as well as the iconic and beloved voices of Steve Downes (John-117) and Jen Taylor (Cortana, Dr. Halsey)—in collaboration with our long-term friends and partners at Simon & Schuster Audio.

This new audio version is based on the updated text in Halo: The Master Chief Omnibus, a collection that is releasing later this year.

We’ll have more exciting casting news to share with you over the coming months!

You can pre-order your copy of The Fall of Reach Full Cast Audio Drama here today.

The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth to hundreds of interstellar colonies, but the Unified Earth Government is struggling to control this vast empire. Dr. Catherine Halsey offers a solution and it starts with seventy-five children—trained to become super-soldiers to deliver humanity from seething colonial insurrections that threaten to erupt into full-blown interplanetary civil war. But an even greater peril lurks among the stars: the Covenant. A theocratic alliance of alien species hellbent on cleansing humanity from the galaxy. 
 
This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and his legendary heroism in leading the fight against humanity’s annihilation.