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Wars end. But hatred, guilt, and devotion can endure beyond the grave.
With the Covenant War over, the Office of Naval Intelligence faces old grievances rising again to threaten Earth. The angry, bitter colonies, still with scores to settle from the insurrection put on hold for thirty years, now want justice -- and so does a man whose life was torn apart by ONI when his daughter was abducted for the SPARTAN-II program. Black ops squad Kilo-Five find their loyalties tested beyond breaking point when the father of their Spartan comrade, still searching for the truth about her disappearance, prepares to glass Earth's cities to get an answer. How far will Kilo-Five go to stop him? And will he be able to live with the truth when he finds it? The painful answer lies with a man long dead, and a conscience that still survives in the most unlikely, undiscovered place.
- Sales Rank: #56505 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Tor Books
- Published on: 2014-01-21
- Released on: 2014-01-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.19" h x 1.31" w x 5.54" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 496 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
“Traviss here employs a raw, unadorned style that makes this a real page-turner. But while Dictata is a quick read, it's not quickly forgotten…. Dictata is also Traviss's best Halo novel…” ―Paul Semel, Official Xbox Magazine
About the Author
#1 New York Times best-selling novelist, scriptwriter and comics author Karen Traviss has received critical acclaim for her award-nominated Wess'har series, as well as regularly hitting the bestseller lists with her Halo, Gears of War, and Star Wars work. A former defence correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, she lives in Wiltshire, England.
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72 of 79 people found the following review helpful.
Weakest of the Kilo-Five trilogy
By Kyle
I really enjoyed Glasslands. It did a great job of setting up a post-war Halo universe, and did an decent tying up the Onyx and Halo 3 story threads while also introducing some interesting new facets to the universe like the Sagheili homeworld and the potential renewal of the human civil war. Thursday War continued these stories, but the lack of the Nylund-era story arc made the novel seem a little more shallow, even if there was some interesting setup for Halo 4.
Now Mortal Dictata is out the door and Traviss has managed to strip out everything that was interesting from the previous books. Now, I don't want to say that I'm somehow against smaller stories in the Halo universe, but after Halo 4 essentially reset the expectation for where the Halo story was going, and Greg Bear detailed an ancient extragalactic war that tied together every loose end from the previous fiction, Mortal Dictata feels empty, lifeless, and completely unessential. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with the writing of the book itself, and it does a reasonably impressive job tying into and maintaining consistency with the established canon. However, there are two glaring issues with the novel that really break it for me.
Firstly, the core plot that moves the story forward revolves around a single Covenant battlecruiser falling into the wrong hands. Now, in universe a CCS cruiser is nothing to shake a stick at, but it took more than 300 Covenant ships to glass Reach, and presumably even more to make Earth fall, and that was at the end of the war when humanity was on its last legs. It's well established that humanity is now the dominant force in the galaxy, and Halo 4 featured a cutscene where the UNSC Infinity literally rammed a CCS cruiser and plowed it in half. Yet, the entire crux of the book is that a terrorist leader may get his hands on this single cruiser, drive it directly to Earth, and glass the UNSC HQ to get some answers about his lost daughter. Obviously there's a bit more to it than that, and the book does occasionally make note of the fact that a single ship wouldn't be able to do too much damage, yet still every character in the book is obsessed with obtaining and holding on to this one cruiser which seems like it would be completely inconsequential in any sort of fleet role. It leads to the entire plot feeling weirdly detached, because the stakes are basically nil, and by the end of the book everything is more or less exactly how it was at the beginning, except that a single character is much happier in his personal life.
The second major flaw is the demonization of Catherine Halsey, as numerous other reviews have noted. To clarify, the pre-Glasslands books did NOT make Halsey out to be a good person; on the contrary, she was an extraordinarily gray character who had her own motivations and didn't take any laws or common decency into account in order to achieve her goals. However, as it turned out her goals were initially to prevent a galaxy-wide human civil war, and they eventually evolved into preventing a total human genocide by alien hands while also unlocking the secrets to an ancient civilization that could change human history and technology. Now maybe you subscribe to the "ends don't justify the means" rationale, or you think that Halsey's intentions were much more selfish, but the problem is that the book never once stops to make that argument, and just assumes that you agree that Halsey is the devil. It's fairly subdued in the first half of the book, and I found myself wondering if the reviews were exaggerating, but by the end there is a mention of Halsey literally every other page, either when describing some sort of horrible underhanded act ("that's something only Halsey would do") or some shady ONI terminology ("it sounded like a term Halsey would use") or just directly comparing her actions to those of Nazi Germany (which actually occurs on three separate occasions, twice within several pages of each other). At least the prior books in the series had Halsey physically available to defend herself, but here she is only mentioned, never seen, and the one time they directly quote her, she actually sounds fairly reasonable and sane.
Again, I don't mind some pathos in my Halo, but it comes across as totally one note and manages to take one of the more interesting and morally ambiguous characters in the series and establishes a true and final judgement for her. It also takes Kilo-Five, a diverse group of different but all likeable characters, and gives them all one overriding emotion that they all feel the majority of the time. Even the AI of the group, who should be the most logical and big-picture member ignores any possible contributions of Catherine Halsey and labels her just as harshly as the others.
All in all, Mortal Dictata has some interesting portions and is probably a must-read if you've already come this far with the Halo fiction, but the story is largely empty and inconsequential (don't get me started on the completely irrelevant Kig-Yar character who exists solely to pad out the already long book and fill time between end-of-chapter cliffhangers) and any attempts at exploring the morality or emotions of the characters and situations falls on its face because there's no exploration, just stating the same opinions over and over and over again.
96 of 109 people found the following review helpful.
Not for the Halo Enthusiast
By sNovah
Quick Summary: Series should have been called: "Halsey = Hitler"; family issues sorta resolved; 343/Microsoft should've picked a different writer.
And that really annoys me on so many levels.
Let me clarify: This isn't a BAD book. It isn't poorly written (although it's not GREAT either), there aren't major plot holes, it manages to remain consistent throughout the book and the Kilo-Five series as a whole.
But from the standpoint of what writers like Eric Nylund and Tobias Buckell (The Cole Protocol), among others, contributed to the Halo universe this is pretty... honestly, it's awful.
My problem with Karen Traviss is very simple: she took a series that was full of interesting, morally gray decisions and choices, and promptly proceeded to drive all over it. She grossly, grossly, grossly oversimplifies the SPARTAN-II program, spending a large chunk of all three books (thankfully less in this one) relating Catherine Halsey to Mengele and Hitler, effectively crucifying the character every chance she can find a few paragraphs to fit it in.
More to the point, her ENTIRE cast, down to the last man and woman and AI, all have the exact same thought process, effectively making Halsey the sole responsible party in having kidnapped, experimented on, and partially brainwashing children. This is amazingly short-sighted and makes for some extremely unsatisfying, extremely tedious periods of reading, where NO consideration for another point of view occurs for otherwise introspective characters. In only two cases throughout the series, BOTH of them in THIS ONE BOOK, does she even have a single character remark that hundreds, if not thousands, of other people participated in the SPARTAN-II Project (and Halsey wasn't even the one who made it possible to begin with), but then promptly changes the subject back to "Halsey = Hitler".
It's just. I expect MORE than a whole bunch of moral-preaching when I read a Halo novel. I expect to hear stories of humans surviving despite the odds, I expect to learn more about the Spartans and the UNSC and the universe as a whole, filled with technical details and little revelations. And while these occasionally show up and get minor appearances, it's not long before Traviss feels that she's paid enough attention to the license and promptly goes back to preaching about how naughty Halsey was and is.
Another reviewer mentioned on a previous post that perhaps Nylund and the others spoiled us with an expectation of giving in-depth, morally gray stories filled with technical jargon and explanation. I suppose that's true, because for all her faults, Traviss did manage to do some things well.
She wrote the secondary plotlines very well, I thought: she manages to bring a depth of characterization to the Engineers that I greatly enjoyed, she did very well illustrating Sangheili society and shedding more light on it, and in this novel even adds a new character from a race and perspective I didn't expect.
Ultimately, Traviss was very good at everything EXCEPT her main plotline. Despite paying lipservice to the gray thinking and motivations that created the SPARTAN-II program, she makes it no secret on which side she thinks you should take, and seemingly expects the reader to just blindly agree with her at all times, given that at no point does she seriously give the other side any credibility or, in fact, ever try and leave the reader with any sort of ambiguity. Her characters quickly and conveniently blow straight though any tense situation with a long internal monologue and always make the "honest" choice.
These same, self-righteous, "honest" characters also gleefully contemplate and plan out the biowar-implemented genocide of several other races (one in particular). Once again, at absolutely no point in the book (or series) does a single character ever question if planning to starve billions of sentient and sapient beings (a good chunk of whom are at least nominally friendly or ambivalent) is an ethical course of action. "Of COURSE it is," they seem to say, "because we're GOOD people just doing what's necessary to protect the Übermensch--I meant, human race!" Sadly, that is not an exaggeration: I'm just painting the characters with the same Nazi brush they use on Halsey. Again. And again. And again.
Honestly, I'm glad I finished the series, mostly because now I can confirm that Traviss should really NEVER touch another person's work.
EDIT: Changed a few sentences that were poorly written, corrected for grammar. Also added one other major complaint I had about the characters.
60 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Likely the worst Halo novel ever written and a contender for one of the worst novels I've ever read
By A. D. Chung
Mortal Dictata can be summarized in five words: Irreverant, self-righteous character assassination.
This novel literally spits on the foundations of the Halo Universe and invites you to do the same, while providing you with an alternative that is equally murky and nowhere near as likable.
The overwhelming theme in the novel is that Catherine Halsey, one of the most storied characters in the Halo Universe, is morally despicable and is to be universally despised. The way that this is approached is through the openly loathing attitudes of the characters, who incessantly refer to her as "cow" or a "wh*re" or a "b*tch" and go on never ending monologues and dialogues about how she is evil and the many ways in which they would like to terminate her. The author clearly feels that if they reiterate this point enough, you will fall in line and buy in to the one-dimensional "Halsey is the devil" propaganda. Yet, the characters themselves are in no moral position to judge Halsey, and their insistence on perceiving themselves as shining moral examples fit to rain down judgement on Halsey feels hypocritical and narrow-minded.
Halo's extended universe has always had a foundation in the dark - children kidnapped from their homes and replaced with flash clones, indoctrinated into the Spartan-II program. This has always been contrasted with the remarkable outcome - superhuman soldiers, paragons of virtue and nobility and epitomized by the Master Chief John-117. Halsey, the murky character who initiated this program has never been viewed as a saint, but a conflicted character nonetheless, universally respected for her genius and whose shreds of humanity are ever present in her maternalistic approach to the Spartan-II's and her increasingly erratic need to protect them. Yet, Karen Traviss abruptly through the Kilo-Five trilogy attempts to widely assassinate Halsey's nuanced character, painting her off with a single stroke as a mad and immoral, self-righteous, self-serving she-devil... shoving it down our throats every few pages in with an inexplicable need that we accept it.
Meanwhile, the characters themselves are grossly unlikable and self-righteous, themselves on a mission to seed perpetual civil war among their allies (the Arbiter's forces, who are clearly honorable as evidenced by the events of Halo 3) yet for some reason continually view themselves as being on the moral high ground. Their thoughts and actions are an ongoing series of contradictions, and certainly not of the measured and cool-minded tactical through processes that one would expect of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
These contradictions make the characters confused and flat while the world is set in an unbelievable moral arrangement that is an overt attempt to be more "nuanced" and "morally grey" but it simply ridiculous. The would-be colonial terrorists rebels have somehow banded together is a communal government-free libertarian society where everyone is so altruistic that the rule of law is maintained because if anyone did anything bad, the neighbours would shoot him! Sure, that's enough to keep everyone in line. Similarly the Jackals, who even we humans have taken to calling by their native species name "Kig-Yar", are also painted as never betraying their own kind to other species - a decidedly human trait.
Somehow, every despot and low life in the galaxy secretly has a heart of gold. Meanwhile, Humans are dirt and ONI secretly runs the show, not the actual UNSC government. The only humans that aren't dirt are Kilo-Five who despite taking part in extremely dirty high level espionage are up to their eyeballs in moral indignation for every atrocity anyone else commits... oh, and did I mention they can't go five minutes without making reference to blowing of "that cow" Halsey's head off?
In the end, what's weaved together is an at times boring, unbelievable, self-righteous piece of drivel who replaces the noble, disciplined personas of John-117, Fred, Linda, and the like with an irreverant cabal of ODST's and one increasingly broken Spartan-II named Naomi.
It's clear that with Karen Traviss at the helm of Halo's story evolution, that everything that was nuanced and even likable about the Halo backstory will soon be washed away in an overzealous need to atone for the dark past of ONI, replacing measured weapons with undisciplined grunts. Oh, and don't be surprised as she tries to proselytize you into believing that there is no God and that suicide is a noble and fearless way to go.
343, I sure hope you rethink where you're going.
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