Halo Silentium Forerunner Greg Bear
Halo: Silentium is the final book in Greg Bear's Forerunner trilogy, set millennia before the events of the game s.html" target="_blank">game s . It continues the story of the Didact and Librarian, as well as several other familiar characters from the first two books.
Similarly to Primordium, Silentium is a bit of a framed narrative - ONI has discovered some Forerunner artifacts and has extracted information from them and put it together in a way that tells the story. Since not everything is necessarily in chronological order or continuous, there are some jumps and abrupt transitions, but there's a purpose and meaning to each thread.
Some things that were hinted at in previous works are explained outright and in more depth, and new secrets about the Precursors, the Forerunners, the Humans, and the Flood are revealed. If you're a fan of the Halo universe, you know how the story is going to end. This only makes it more powerful though, in my mind, as you see the possible choices slowly focus down to one inevitable course of events.
The end left some things open and was a slight letdown, but shortly after the book was published it was revealed that there is actually a coda that expands upon the ending, making it more satisfactory. You can find out about that by going here. I don't think it's necessary for enjoying the story, but it certainly helps but a bow on things. There are still a few questions I'd like answered, however, and I look forward to finding out more in future stories.
In the end, I thoroughly enjoyed Silentium and tore through it in two sittings. By the last fifty pages or so I couldn't even put it down. If you're a Halo fan, this entire series is a must-read. Science fiction fans will certainly appreciate it as well.
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