The last entry in the Forerunner series of Halo novels has been delayed.
> Tor Books, publisher of many… well, books, has announced a delay to Halo: Silentium. The book is the last and final novel in Greg Bear’s Forerunners cycle of the Halo series.
> The book was originally planned for release in January 2013, but has since slipped its date to March 2013 alongside both audio and e-book editions.
> Previous entries in the series include Halo: Cryptum and Halo: Primordium, both of which are presently available in digital and physical formats. The stories tell of the end of the Forerunners and is designed to fill in the canon explored by Master Chief and his cohorts in the upcoming Halo 4 videogame by 343 Industries.
Source: http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/10121/article/halo-4-forerunner-novel-by-greg-bear-delayed/
If you’re interested in buying and reading some of the books from the Forerunner Saga, I will provide you with Amazon links to the whole saga here:
Halo: Cryptum
100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings.
But one species–eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge–achieved dominance.
They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness.
They were the Forerunners–the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe’s Living Time.
And then they vanished.
This is their story.
Halo: Primordium
A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.
Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies–a greater reach than any human before me.
You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.
Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas…
Halo: Silentium
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.
Halo 4 is set for release on November 6 and is exclusive to the Xbox 360.