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May the Great Journey await you, may your enemies writhe in hell, and your line continue forward, and gain honor. May your scattered body go beyond the limits of your mind... Beyond the limits of our worlds, to the places our ancestors dream and sang of, and the Prophets speak of.

I liked a lot of those too.
Hmm.

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Ha AKira appears 5 times in that story.
Savage.

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why not anything at the end like something about matchmaking?


Because that has nothing to do with the article, genius.


Wow I corrected a moderator!

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No one said Star Gate SG1. ]=
Atleast someone said Trigun.

  • 04.12.2006 4:55 PM PDT

$x='print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x; ';
print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x;

I work at Microsoft. I have nothing to do with Halo and nothing I say is "the official word".

Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke
That made me feel intelligent, I've actually read that before. And I barely read anything. :D

Fahrenheit 451
A Sound Of Thunder
Hey, two more! I would say 'triple kill', but that's incredibly lame.

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No Ender's game? What kind of sci-fi people are you!?

  • 04.12.2006 5:06 PM PDT

The Matrix Trilogy owns all.

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You can't get me to read that whole thing, nope, no way.

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trigun is ok but im not in to anime

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And to think I wasted about twenty minutes of my life reading all of that . . . .lots of writing there Frankie, or I mean . . . typing.

Starship Troopers kick ass.

  • 04.12.2006 5:34 PM PDT

So... boring. Cannot... read such boringness...

  • 04.12.2006 5:37 PM PDT

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -Aristotle

Dear God that long....maybe I'll read half today then the rest tomorry.

  • 04.12.2006 5:42 PM PDT

Dirt hurts

I think its funny that you guys say you have very little time to work on MMing update because of your Next BIG Project (can you at least say its Halo 3). Well at least you found time to write this useless article. I guess it wasn't totally useless some people found it interesting not me. Maybe if I watch all those movies and read all those book by the time I'm done, there will be an updated to MM and some real info on the NBP 'next big project'

I think you guys put this out there so we would watch some movies and read some books and ask no questions in the mean time.

Halo 2 dead in the water
G.R.A.W taking over

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I'm reading Ender's Game now, and it seems awfully similar to Fall of Reach.

  • 04.12.2006 5:54 PM PDT

I'm surprised no one mentioned Robert J. Sawyer's novels.



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Posted by: Frankie
Find out what sci-fi inspires the Bungie crew, what they're reading, watching and playing. This is also a pretty useful shopping list for folks interested in delving into the incredible wealth of sci-fi entertainment out there. With the exception of Leprechaun 4, that is...

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Were any non-nerds expected to read that? I mean, i stopped after reading the title.



I agree with they guy above me.

The guy above you was naughty, and has been punished.

[Edited on 4/12/2006 by GameJunkieJim]

  • 04.12.2006 6:21 PM PDT
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"Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies. A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during crises."

Posted by: XxMagillaxX
I think its funny that you guys say you have very little time to work on MMing update because of your Next BIG Project (can you at least say its Halo 3). Well at least you found time to write this useless article. I guess it wasn't totally useless some people found it interesting not me. Maybe if I watch all those movies and read all those book by the time I'm done, there will be an updated to MM and some real info on the NBP 'next big project'

I think you guys put this out there so we would watch some movies and read some books and ask no questions in the mean time.

Halo 2 dead in the water
G.R.A.W taking over


The whole point of these articles, and even the update clearly whooshes right over your head. Quite yer -blam!-in' about Matchmaking playlists and future game announcements. You people sound like drug addicts looking for their next quick fix. Perhaps you *should* go off and watch a movie or play a game instead of moaning in the forums day in day out about every small decision the people at Bungie make.

There are a great deal of people who happen to respect the guys at Bungie for what they do, and your pissant attitude ruins the fun for the rest of us.

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Awsomeness! Thank you Bungie!!! Reading; one of my many hobies. Sci-fi / Fantasy. "Best genra ever." My own little list-
Dragonlance, Chronicles Vol. 1, Dragons of Autumn Twilight.
A Wizard of Earthsea,
The Hithickers Guide to the Galaxy.
Well, I'll leave it with those three series because I could go on... for a very long time. And now I might have to check out some of the stuff on this list... I'm definetly going to look and see if I can find any connections from Halo to anything on that list. It's always fun to see were people get ideas from.

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Posted by: LethalSiN
Atleast someone said Trigun.

Yeah, i was gonna say... Damn Trigun is quite good.

Yeah, and lost is on tonight, im stoked Jack gets to face the others!

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I didnt look thru everyone but does family guy inspire you guys? It seems like it does... just judging the way you guys act as a group and individuals.

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"Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies. A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during crises."

I would like to add some books I personally enjoy:

Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Legend of the Jade Pheonix Trilogy by Robert Thurston
[For you Battletech fans.]

Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
Discworld by Terry Pratchet
Starhammer by Christopher Rowley
[This one is hard to find, but has some great parallels with Halo.]



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Wow and I thought I was a Sci-Fi fan because I love Star Wars and Halo..............I got a lot of work to do. I was surprised more workers didn't say they liked Halo.
P.S. Is Lost really considered a Sci-Fi?

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  • 04.12.2006 7:23 PM PDT

Thankyou

posted byChris Butcher, Code Kiwi
Jack L. Chalker – Twilight at the Well of Souls series


wow, somebody has heard of them after all... sweet !

--now part of the Butcher fanboy circuit.

A clockwork orange is cool too, whoever said that one.

  • 04.12.2006 7:25 PM PDT

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Marathon, Myth, and MORE (Under construction)

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Mob Of Angry Peasants Chat

Favorite movies:

Dune (1984)
Strange Days
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars Episodes IV, V and VI
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home




Favorite Books:

Dune by Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers (The uncensored version) by Robert A. Heinlein
Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy by Douglas Adams
The Mode Series by Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony
Bio of a Space Tyrant Series by Piers Anthony
Split Infinity Series by Piers Anthony
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov



Favorite Televison:

Hitchhiker's BBC Series
Star Trek: TNG
Stargate: SG1
Stargate: Atlantis
FarScape



Favorite Games:

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
TIE Fighter
Overlord (Supremacy in the UK)
M.U.L.E.
Robotron 2084
Marathon
Galaga
Starfleet Academy





Maybe next week we'll get a fantasy one.

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