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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

Even with Halo Cryptums release,the Forerunners still sound mysterious to me.

Cryptum didn't ruined the feeling for me whenever i walk among the Forerunner structures in the games,it still gives me that mysterious feeling.

  • 07.05.2011 9:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: hotshot revan II
Even with Halo Cryptums release,the Forerunners still sound mysterious to me.

Cryptum didn't ruined the feeling for me whenever i walk among the Forerunner structures in the games,it still gives me that mysterious feeling.


I try to figure out what those structures were for.

I hunger for knowledge.

  • 07.05.2011 9:44 AM PDT

Exact science, is not an exact science.

Pious oaf!!

  • 07.06.2011 8:54 AM PDT


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Keep the mystery alive and so on!!



That is the reason. You are not welcomed on the waypoint forums.




I guess it takes some level of mind to understand the book.


Greg Bear is an old-time hard-sci-fi author, winner of the most prestigious awards in science-fiction literature several times over. It'd be quite understandable if you've read the works of other greats, such as Ray Bradburry (who Bear was close friends with) and Larry Niven from the era that you'd find it more difficult to understand.

See, most people this day and age see sci-fi as epic war adventures filled with dazzling explosions. This preconception has seeped into novels as well, unfortunately.

But Greg Bear is from that older time where sci-fi existed to criticise our present day qualms (I know of at least one reader who saw Faber from Cryptum as being allegorical to Richard Cheney). He's from a time where subtle character devolopment, plot and culture actually mattered.

Halo has always had both sides of the coin, which is why I feel its so popular. It can appeal to all forms of sci-fi lovers.

Cryptum was more anchored into the cultural and character setting then most other Halo stories. Some of the..... immature Halo fans, to put it nicely, see Cryptum as a 6 year old would see Shakespear: its boring .

So yes, it does take a certain maturity and frame of mind to enjoy Cryptum. A frame of mind, some of us here, including those in this very thread to pretend to be a connoisseur of literature, unfortunately lack.

[Edited on 07.06.2011 9:16 AM PDT]

  • 07.06.2011 9:16 AM PDT
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actually humanity destroyed the cure themselves pretty much as a middle finger to the forunners

  • 07.06.2011 9:26 AM PDT


Posted by: ROBERTO jh

Greg Bear is an old-time hard-sci-fi author, winner of the most prestigious awards in science-fiction literature several times over. It'd be quite understandable if you've read the works of other greats, such as Ray Bradburry (who Bear was close friends with) and Larry Niven from the era that you'd find it more difficult to understand.

See, most people this day and age see sci-fi as epic war adventures filled with dazzling explosions. This preconception has seeped into novels as well, unfortunately.

But Greg Bear is from that older time where sci-fi existed to criticise our present day qualms (I know of at least one reader who saw Faber from Cryptum as being allegorical to Richard Cheney). He's from a time where subtle character devolopment, plot and culture actually mattered.

Halo has always had both sides of the coin, which is why I feel its so popular. It can appeal to all forms of sci-fi lovers.

Cryptum was more anchored into the cultural and character setting then most other Halo stories. Some of the..... immature Halo fans, to put it nicely, see Cryptum as a 6 year old would see Shakespear: its boring .

So yes, it does take a certain maturity and frame of mind to enjoy Cryptum. A frame of mind, some of us here, including those in this very thread to pretend to be a connoisseur of literature, unfortunately lack.


Forgive me for being succinct and less eloquent than your response.

I personally find Greg Bear boring. I have attempted to read other books and series by Greg which also resulted in my disappointment, just as with Cryptum.

This opnion from a fan of Stephen Hawking, Arthur C Clarke, Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov and John Wyndham etc.

It is NOT just so called immature readers that dislike Greg Bear, his writing style is too boring. Greg's style tends to polarise readers even in spite of his accolades.

Eric Nylund was a far better choice in my opinion.

  • 07.06.2011 9:26 PM PDT

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