User blog comment:Tuckerscreator/A review: The Fall of Reach/@comment-4791684-20110804214358

Nice review! I noticed that one of your recurring disappointments was that the rewritten Fall of Reach didn't incorporate the later canon elements, or adjust itself to more suitable retcons (such as the earlier appearances of all Covenant species). One thing that really bothered me about the novel was how it skipped from 2525, the beginning of the war, straight to 2552, near the end. There was a huge gap that practically forced the UNSC to learn everything about the Covenant (Prophets, Elites, Drones, Hunters, Brutes) in the last few months of the war. It was something I had hoped would be revised in the 2010 edition of the book, but virtually most of the book was left unchanged, some dates that were right before are now screwed up, and all we get after 9 years is a short "afterword" of sorts.