The release date for Halo: Silentium by Greg Bear, the final book in The Forerunner Saga trilogy which concludes this story of the the enigmatic creators and builders of the Halos, has been updated to March 19, 2013.
Silentium chronicles the last years of the Forerunner empire, when 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. Only the 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 unmatched evil from dominating the entire universe. Find out more about Halo: Silentium, and see a larger version of the cover, here.