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''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'' is a military science fiction novel by Eric Nylund, based on the ''Halo'' series of video games. The book was released in October 2006 and is the fourth ''Halo'' novel; Nylund's third contribution to the series. ''Onyx'' was also the first of three ''Halo'' novels to be published by Tor Books, rather than the previous publisher, Del Rey. ''Ghosts of Onyx'' is a piece detailing the creation of a group of supersoldiers known as the SPARTAN-IIIs to defend humanity against the alien collective known as the Covenant. After the events of ''Halo 2'', the SPARTAN's training world of Onyx is beset by robotic attackers. The SPARTANs and their trainers must fight the robots and the Covenant as they work to uncover the planet's secrets. Upon release, ''Ghosts of Onyx'' garnered generally positive reviews. The novel debuted on ''The New York Times'' bestseller list and became an international bestseller. ==Background and writing== ''Ghosts of Onyx'' author Eric Nylund had previously written two of the three past ''Halo'' novels, ''The Fall of Reach'' and ''First Strike'', and went to ''Halo''s developer Bungie with an outline of what he wanted to do next. According to Nylund, Bungie gave him room to write the story as long as he accomplished some "very specific () goals", sometimes making changes to the ''Halo'' universe to incorporate his ideas.〔 However, he acknowledged the difficulty of fitting his story into the rest of the ''Halo'' universe was far greater for ''Ghosts of Onyx'' than the other novels as more of the story had been made public and was no longer able to be modified.〔 Nylund mentioned in an interview with IGN that writing a ''Halo'' novel had both its positive aspects and drawbacks. "It's better because I have all these great toys and characters to play with," Nylund stated in an interview, "It's not so good because I have to work and play well with other parts of the intellectual property so everything meshes." ''Ghosts of Onyx'', originally known as ''Ghosts of Coral'', was the first ''Halo'' novel to be published by Tor Books instead of Del Rey. Nylund had 15 weeks to write the book, as opposed to the 7 weeks for ''The Fall of Reach'', but he claimed he still "lost sleep... ate a bunch of chocolate and drank too much coffee."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eric Nylund: Interview )〕 Tor's editors also had more time than those of Del Rey and helped "untangle" the complicated plot of ''Onyx''. On writing, Nylund pointed out that "tension is the cornerstone of any good story", and that ''Ghosts of Onyx'' would be no different. IGN's reviewer, Douglass C. Perry, found that by using short paragraphs and many jumps in time "(novel's ) style of writing keeps the pace going, even when nothing much is going on."〔 This technique is used deliberately by Nylund to hasten the pace to avoid "fatiguing the reader and losing them." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Halo: Ghosts of Onyx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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