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|author=[[Peter David]]<ref name="Canon Fodder 20150312">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-novel-ideas '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Novel Ideas'']</ref> | |author=[[Peter David]]<ref name="Canon Fodder 20150312">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-novel-ideas '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Novel Ideas'']</ref> | ||
|cover artist=[[:Category:Images by Kory Lynn Hubbell|Kory Lynn Hubbell]] | |||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*The book's cover is illustrated by [[:Category:Images by Kory Lynn Hubbell|Kory Lynn Hubbell]], a concept artist who worked for [[343 Industries]] on ''[[Halo 4]]'' and ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''. ''Hunters in the Dark'' was Hubbell's first book cover illustration, though he would later go on to illustrate the cover of ''[[Halo: Last Light]]''.{{Ref/Site|URL=https://koryface.tumblr.com/post/115745859150/halo-hunters-in-the-dark-i-was-lucky-enough-to-do|Site=Tumblr|Page=koryface|Quote='''Halo: Hunters in the Dark''' I was lucky enough to do a book cover for the next Halo Novel, Hunters in the Dark. This was a first for me, so I’ll mark that off the old’ bucket list.|D=27|M=12|Y=2022}} | |||
*The title of the novel is an allusion to several lines (691-694) from the 1781 Poem ''Retirement'' by [[Wikipedia:William Cowper|William Cowper]], which are featured as an epigraph:<br>{{Quote|Philologists, who chase<br>A panting syllable through time and space,<br>Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark<br>To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.|William Cowper}} | *The title of the novel is an allusion to several lines (691-694) from the 1781 Poem ''Retirement'' by [[Wikipedia:William Cowper|William Cowper]], which are featured as an epigraph:<br>{{Quote|Philologists, who chase<br>A panting syllable through time and space,<br>Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark<br>To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.|William Cowper}} | ||
**A [[Wikipedia:Philology|Philologist]] is one who studies ancient texts and languages. This epigraph is therefore appropriate as Luther Mann's study of the ancient Forerunner language brought him on a chase from Trevelyan to Zeta Halo and finally to the Ark. | **A [[Wikipedia:Philology|Philologist]] is one who studies ancient texts and languages. This epigraph is therefore appropriate as Luther Mann's study of the ancient Forerunner language brought him on a chase from Trevelyan to Zeta Halo and finally to the Ark. | ||