: ...
: *Rubs temples*

: Christie Golden isn't just writing for Halo, she's writing the Forerunner?
: Hmm. I've only ever read her StarCraft novels, but it never would have
: occurred to me to have her step into Greg Bear's shoes. It's still not
: occurring to me. Ideas aside, how well was it written?

I feel like a lot of the short stories lack the kind of flavor I'd expect from a longer work, although then again I'm probably a lot more "classical" in my literary tastes than a modern reader—give me three pages of Dickens describing Scrooge's house any day.

Mostly Bear had such a high sci-fi feel to him that felt very alien and a throwback to classic sci-fi authors, which I think worked well for the trilogy. Golden doesn't have the same tone, really, but it's also a different story—this is the Forerunners largely stripped of their pretense and their godhood. So in that sense it's a smart shift.

: Yayap and Zamamee?

The Didact and the Lifeshaper.