Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga

Time to Read
5 hrs 24 mins

Reading Time

5 hrs 24 mins

How long to read Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga?

The estimated word count of Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga is 80,755 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 24 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 59 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs.

Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga - 80,755 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 8 hrs 59 mins
Average 250 words/min 5 hrs 24 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs

More about Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga

80,755 words

Word Count

for Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga

352 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 352 pages
Paperback: 336 pages
Kindle: 344 pages

8 hours and 41 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change--and of human origins. For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever. 100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings. But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--achieved dominance. They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. They were the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe's Living Time.And then they vanished. This is their story.Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner. He is a Manipular, untried--yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunners' highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe. It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father. But this Manipular has other plans. He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent---forces his father's hand. Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies. But powerful forces are at play. Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and strategies never before contemplated--are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos.On a Lifeworker's experimental planet, Bornstellar's rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellar's destiny ...and the fate of the entire galaxy. Read more