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Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House. It is a separate imprint established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. It specializes mainly in Science Fiction and Fantasy books.
It has been responsible for the publishing of Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund, and Halo: The Flood by William Dietz. Del Rey Books did not publish any further Halo novels, as the publisher Tor Books took over with Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.