[image:4046 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Eric Trautmann of Microsoft, who is the point person for the Halo novelizations, mentioned on the HBO forum that the manuscript for the next Halo novel, Halo: First Strike, which will cover the as-yet-undivulged amount of time between Halo and Halo 2, has been turned in for copyediting. Also, we hadn't noticed before, but apparently Eric maintains a blog at LiveJournal. There are a few Halo-related goodies there that I won't relate here. However, I would suggest not mentioning the word Jedi to Trautmann any time in the near future.