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Greg Bear To Write Halo Trilogy

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-are-you-doing-you-won-a-hugo-for-god's-sake dept.

SailorSpork writes "Many gaming websites are reporting that Hugo and Nebula award winning sci-fi author Greg Bear will be writing a 100,000-year prequel trilogy to the Halo series, focusing on the Forerunners and presumably the construction of the Larry Niven knock-offs. Will he be able to balance the needs of his hard sci-fi fanbase with the Halo fans' need for a soft introduction to 'chapter books?' Despite my sarcasm, as someone who considers both of them guilty pleasures, I am actually really looking forward to seeing how he handles this."

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  1. A 100,000-year prequel trilogy to the Halo by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeez! And I thought the Wheel of Time series was taking a long time to complete!

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  2. Books based on video games ripped off from books.. by synthesizerpatel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The entertainment industry: When it comes to recycling, they're blazing the trail.

  3. Larry Niven knock-offs? by rarity · · Score: 3, Informative

    I always thought that they were knock-offs of Iain M Banks' Larry Niven knock-offs...

  4. They have a reasonable success rate already by quin_chance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the halo novels they have already released are actually pretty sweet: the only bad one was the one covering the first game: cos the felt the need to give you a walkthrough of master-chief going through the game... the "stuff everybody else was up to" is cool. They've done a good job of creating a very detailed world, with massive level of detail missing from the game itself

  5. Re:Hard to follow by itsdapead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone else find his stories hard to follow or is it just me?

    Which ones? He's pretty diverse - I don't think you'd guess that "Blood Music" (brilliant), "Eon" (very good), "Queen of Angels" (heavy going, but worth it) and "Vitals" (dull Michael Crighton-style techno thriller) were by the same author.

    ...and that's assuming you don't get him mixed up with Greg Egan (hmmm - Master Chief as an androgynous posthuman software entity...)

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  6. Re:Sad by syrinx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I'm sure Mr. Bear will take your criticism to heart, he will at least be able to comfort himself with the huge sacks of cash he will be making from this venture.

    (I'm not saying this as more criticism -- I'd probably do the same in his position.)

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