 Video game website Kotaku was given a five-minute audio clip of the book being read by Tim Dadabo, who voiced the character of 343 Guilty Spark in previous Halo games.At a Comic-Con panel on the Halo Universe, Frank O'Connor stated that the book would have "resonant connections" with Halo 4.Bear stated that the interactions of the humans and the Forerunners were some of his favorite parts of the Forerunner trilogy.