Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446364034
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0446364037
Label: Warner Books
Manufacturer: Warner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 1993-02
Publisher: Warner Books
Studio: Warner Books
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I had read "Forge of God" a number of years ago and i could not put it down-it is a great Sci Fi novel. When i heard of the follow up (Anvil of Stars) i couldn't wait to read it, but i was so disapointed. This is a long read and nothing much happens until the last 50 pages or so, Bear tries to use this as a vehicle to explore the themes of leadership, adolesence and social interaction, the result-teen angst in space ! and not enough of the great story telling that was present in "Forge of God". A ...
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This is one of my favourite books of all. I love the new ideas such as "noach" etc. I will read it again and again
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The reviewer before me has already done a very good job and I agree with him entirely. However, this book is so good and so unusual in its themes that it is worth reiterating many of them:
A truly enveloping pathos that, in conjunction with the setting and the storyline, gives the book an intense and profound emotional backdrop;
A great underlying sense of unease that remains pretty much throughout the story;
A very effective and intriguing use of science, and ...
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This little-appreciated book is Greg Bear's best, in my opinion. Science Fiction it may be, but its themes are as adult and rigorous as any book in any genre. It is also very well written.
An air of melancholy and despair - as well as barely suppressed terror - carries right through from start to finish, as befits the situation set up in its predecessor, The Forge of God. Bear does not shirk the philosophical implications of the story he is telling. The humans and aliens caught up in the ...
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Taken on its own, this is a respectable book, although some of the characterisations are a bit weird, to say the least.
Unfortunately, it fails to impress as a sequel to Forge of God. If this is the only Bear book you read, you'll wonder why the hype. If you read his others, you'll wonder why he didn't think about this one a bit longer before writing it.
