{"product_id":"halo-primordium","title":"Halo: Primordium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second in a new series of three HALO novels, Greg Bear's Primordium dives back into the Forerunner saga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince then, I've traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies--a greater reach than any human before me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I'll be able to finish the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans--Chakas and Riser--are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. For they have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end--a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of duty to all living things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the company of a young girl and an old man, Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost and damaged Halo in search of a way home, an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within, and for the Librarian's tampering with human destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis journey will take them into the Palace of Pain, the domain of a powerful and monstrous intelligence who claims to be the Last Precursor, and who now has control of both this Halo and the fate of Forerunners and Humans alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled the Captive by Forerunners, and the Primordial by ancient human warriors, this intelligence has taken charge of, and retasked, the Master Builder's cruel researches into the Flood--which it may have itself unleashed on the galaxy more than ten thousand years before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Titan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154083791019,"sku":"9781835416969","price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/3732\/9579\/files\/9781835416969.jpg?v=1780278464","url":"https:\/\/notjustbooks.com.au\/products\/halo-primordium","provider":"Not Just Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}