Halo: Cryptum (Forerunner Saga (Halo))

If you're a fan of Halo, don't give buying it a second thought. The book is rather slow to boot but redeems itself soon enough. The revelations made about the history of the Forerunners is sure to get any Halo fan salivating.

Looks like a decade old.Pages are yellow in colour. Language is confusing.Disappointed by Amazon's handling as well as authors crazy writing.Please don't buy this , at least buy kindle version.

The book is very difficult to read. Found it very hard to connect with the characters and the story.

What a book and what a story.!Excellent quality book delivered within the delivery date...!!

I am a Halo fan so I had to get this book. I waited until the softcover version came out and started reading it. I was a bit curious about the story because it is far away from the Halo universe we know of. But that curiousity was answered with great satisfaction. The story is awesome and it reads really well, great writing. It is still Halo and many things are related to the terminals in Halo 3. It is a must for everybody that likes the Halo universe and is curious about the history of it. Even if you are new to 'Halo' you can read this because the red line through the Halo universe is pretty simple in fact (and this book is in the beginning). You go back to the far past and meet the Forerunners. The Forerunners are an awesome civilizition/species, I wish our world was a bit more Forerunner-ish lol. The scale of their world is behind words and their role in the universe is the most noble cause a species can have. Look I'm starting to dream again! Looking forward to the next two parts because that universe is so huge and well designed that I still need to discover a lot. The book has not the same dimension than the others (Ghosts of Onyx, ...) but hey that is not a problem. And like I am used to, Amazon delivered it fast and in good state.

Is this the same Greg Bear that bought us gems like Eon and Hull Zero Three? It reads like some juvenile twaddle cobbled together for a bunch of gormless gamers who've never read a book in their lives. Shallow, monolithic characters, shoddy and repetitive dialogue. If you want to remember the author for his seminal works, don't give this pile of excre*ment a second glance.

I have never played the game, nor read any of the books. In fact, I know nothing at all about Halo, except there is a lot of stuff out there. When I saw that Greg Bear had written what I think is a prequel, I thought that would be a good point to start - do the prequels, and then move on to what, I suppose is the main course; the books that have been around from the beginning.It certainly inhabits a different world and I am not sure whether any of the characters, or indeed life forms make it through to the later books, but I enjoyed how they were all fleshed out. The settings are described in detail, albeit from a mostly alien perspective, and you soon come to inhabit that world and take interest in the characters and what happens to them. This book certainly focuses on the young Forerunner and, as I start book two, I see that other characters are coming to the fore.I really enjoyed this book and on the strength of it, I have downloaded 2 and 3.My only, slight gripe, is to do with the odd typo here and there, particularly near the beginning but that seems to settle down.

Halo: Cryptum is about the origins of the Didact. This book introduces the characters central to the continuing plot of Halo - the Forerunner race, and the Precursor race. These two races are the future, and in some ways the past (without spoiling Primordium) of the Halo franchise, and therefore are vital to anyone wanting to fully understand the Halo plot. Greg Bear does a fantastic job at introducing the series here and leaving it on a cliffhanger that will instantly make you want the second part (imagine how this felt for those of us who had to wait eighteen months to get the next part of the story!). This book is followed by Primordium - read this after too to enhance your knowledge and for your own enjoyment because it is just so fantastically written! This is then followed by the conclusion, Silentium, which is the best conclusion to a trilogy I have ever read! Go for it! :)

Greg Bear has done what he could with this story. Unlike most of the other Halo books I've read, this story is much more slow paced and technical. As a Halo fan, it was a no-brainer for me to read the prequel to the entire saga. While I enjoy the depth and clarity that Bear brings to the series, there is much I miss from Eric Nylun's style of writing.