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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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