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'''Halo: Silentium''' is the third and last novel in ''[[The Forerunner Saga]]'' by [[Greg Bear]] and is the sequel to ''[[Halo: Primordium]]''. It will be released on March 19, 2013, with an audio edition released simultaneously.<ref>[http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2012/10/22/Tor-Books-Updates-Release-Date-of-the-Third-Halo-Novel-by-Legendary-Science-Fiction-Author-Greg-Bear.aspx '''Tor Books updates release date of the third Halo novel by legendary science fiction author Greg Bear''']</ref> | '''Halo: Silentium''' is the third and last novel in ''[[The Forerunner Saga]]'' by [[Greg Bear]] and is the sequel to ''[[Halo: Primordium]]''. It will be released on March 19, 2013, with an audio edition released simultaneously.<ref name="delay">[http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2012/10/22/Tor-Books-Updates-Release-Date-of-the-Third-Halo-Novel-by-Legendary-Science-Fiction-Author-Greg-Bear.aspx '''Tor Books updates release date of the third Halo novel by legendary science fiction author Greg Bear''']</ref> | ||
==Official summary== | ==Official summary== | ||
''"In the last years of the [[Forerunner]] empire, chaos rules. [[The Flood]]—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the [[ecumene]] has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. | ''"In the last years of the [[Forerunner]] empire, chaos rules. [[The Flood]]—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the [[ecumene]] has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.'' | ||
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''Too little, too late, the legal [[rate]] of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the [[Faber|Master Builder]] and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from [[the Librarian]] and both [[The Didact|Didacts]]: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she [[Conservation Measure|preserves specimens]] against the dire possibility of [[Halo Array|Halo]] extermination.'' | ''Too little, too late, the legal [[rate]] of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the [[Faber|Master Builder]] and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from [[the Librarian]] and both [[The Didact|Didacts]]: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she [[Conservation Measure|preserves specimens]] against the dire possibility of [[Halo Array|Halo]] extermination.'' | ||
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*[[Wiktionary:Silentium|"Silentium"]] is [[Latin]] for "silence", "stillness", "inactivity" or "cessation", which reflects the effect of the Halo Array's galaxy-wide activation on the Forerunner civilization and life in the galaxy. | *[[Wiktionary:Silentium|"Silentium"]] is [[Latin]] for "silence", "stillness", "inactivity" or "cessation", which reflects the effect of the Halo Array's galaxy-wide activation on the Forerunner civilization and life in the galaxy. | ||
*The cover art depicts a [[Cryptum]] floating near a Forerunner structure. | *The cover art depicts a [[Cryptum]] floating near a Forerunner structure. | ||
*The novel was originally set to be released on January 8, 2013,<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/07/11/Tor-Books-Reveals-Title-Cover-Art-And-Release-Date-of-Third-Halo-Novel-By-Greg-Bear.aspx '''Tor Books reveals title, cover art, and release date of the third Halo novel by legendary science fiction author Greg Bear''']</ref> but the release was later delayed to March 19 for unknown reasons.<ref name="delay"/> | |||
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Halo: Silentium is the third and last novel in The Forerunner Saga by Greg Bear and is the sequel to Halo: Primordium. It will be released on March 19, 2013, with an audio edition released simultaneously.[1]
Official summary
"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.
Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination.
Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood.
The Precursors created many technological species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before...
Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian--husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict--hold the keys to a solution.
Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time—to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe."[2]
Trivia
- "Ur" is a German prefix that means "original" or "primitive".
- "Silentium" is Latin for "silence", "stillness", "inactivity" or "cessation", which reflects the effect of the Halo Array's galaxy-wide activation on the Forerunner civilization and life in the galaxy.
- The cover art depicts a Cryptum floating near a Forerunner structure.
- The novel was originally set to be released on January 8, 2013,[3] but the release was later delayed to March 19 for unknown reasons.[1]
