Out of the loop error, please add info: is this a new book?

I don't know how I feel about Traviss in this fandom-- she wanked up a storm in my other one. Hmm.

It was one of the short stories in "Halo: Evolutions".

It's nothing like Cortana saying she wanted to have John's baby or anything, LOL. But, it's a good look into Cortana during the end of Halo 2 all the way through to when John finds her in Halo 3.

She did tweak the scene between them in Halo 3...slightly...so if you have strong feelings about that, then it may make you shed a tear.

I thought the insight she gave with the whole Halsey/Cortana relationship was interesting...But, it was the whole what John really means to Cortana is what made my heart skip a beat.

I'm going through the rest of the book now...each short story is by a different author...I've only read three of the short stories, but they are overall pretty good. (And the fact that Amazon has the book on sale now for about 6 bucks--as opposed to 15 is pretty sweet.)

Oh good, that sets my fears to rest! And cool, 6 bucks-- I was going to buy the audio version, but it was like $30 and I thought that was insane. The Halsey/Cortana relationship is one of the things I've been musing on for a long time, so I'll be interested to read that. There's another story in that which I'm already spoiled for that gave me a ton of headdesks, though. (The one about the disabled Spartan.)

I just need Traviss to not randomly decide she doesn't like part of canon and rewrite it to focus on the people she does like made up. I more-or-less agreed with her opinion on the Jedi, but I generally *like* this canon and don't want anyone taking a monkeywrench to it.