The final novel of the Forerunner Saga trilogy by science fiction legend
Greg Bear--set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times
bestselling video game series!One hundred thousand years ago. Chaos
rules the final days of the Forerunner empire. The Flood--a horrifying,
shape-changing, and unstoppable parasite--has arrived in force, aided by
unexpected allies, and internal strife has desperately weakened
Forerunner defenses. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization,
the Forerunners known as the Ur-Didact and the Librarian reveal what
they know about the relationship between the long-vanished race of the
Precursors and the Flood. While the Precursors created many
technological species, including those of the Forerunners and humanity
itself, the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous
barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before.
Because of that savagery, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and
the Librarian--husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict--hold the
keys to a solution. As they face the consequences of a mythic tragedy,
one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time--a
shocking act designed to prevent an insane abomination from dominating
the entire galaxy...