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Posted by: Oddley765
Why they didn't stick with Eric Nylund I'll never know.
As much as I like Nylund, judging by his Halo novels, Cryptum doesn't seem like the sort of novel he could write well. I could be wrong though. I've never read any of his other work.
Posted by: Raylette
The hardest part about the writing is that you can't truly visualize anything he talks about. Just about every setting, character, and object in the book is from a side of Halo Lore never shown.
I honestly had little trouble visualizing what I was reading about. Forerunner structures and technology are probably the easiest since we've become very familiar with the appearance of their architecture.
Honestly, I love how Bear kinda turned what we thought we knew about the time period on its head. Forerunners really aren't the perfect god-like entities they sound like in the rest of the lore. Humans were already an advanced spacefaring species. We beat the Flood first. Go humanity. Also, on a more minor note, the fact that the San 'Shyuum were once regarded as a fair species or warriors. What the hell happened?