Eric S. Nylund

One night a couple of years ago, I went to the book store. I was a bit discouraged, because over the preceding several months, I had tried about 25 novels in a row, none of which turned out to be good enough to read more than a few pages of. On this occasion, I selected 3 science fiction books to try that evening. The first two had to be rejected, but the third one, "Signal to Noise," by a young writer named Eric S. Nylund, was really excellent. Over the next few months I read everything he had ever written, both in and out of print.

A couple of years ago, he wrote a new novel with the rather peculiar title of "Halo: The Fall of Reach," which turned out to be about interstellar warfare. I quickly realized that this was about the last sort of book likely to be any good. Apparently Microsoft approached Nylund to write a backstory for one of their video games. Despite the nature of the task, the novel he produced was just excellent. He has just written a sequel to it, which I believe is called "Halo: First Strike." I looked on Amazon.com and 48 reviewers had given it an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

This writer is highly recommended for anyone who likes science fiction.