The Forge of God (Paperback)

from Farree

Here is a totally spoiler review. The Earth gets destroyed and everyone gets killed. Aliens come and tear the Earth completely to shreds and squarsh everyone in fragments of continents and ocean globs. What I would like to know is what the hell is the point? The book is fairly well written and th...

from DSD

I read this book quite a while ago so my recollection of the story is a bit hazy. As far as I recall it wasn't a bad read but it wasn't an outstanding one either. My main reason for saying this is because the sub-plots that made up the story read almost as seperate stories and didn't really seem ...

from kvrfan

This is not science fiction that falls into the "Big Ideas" category, but rather into the "threat from space thriller" category. I didn't find the characters all-that-well developed, but in thrillers one rarely does. The important thing with a thriller is whether the author keeps one turning the ...

from SandDune

I thought I was going to enjoy this book a lot more than I did, as it was nominated for a number of awards, but disappointingly in practice it didn't really work for me at all. Jupiter's moon Europa has suddenly disappeared: not exploded or knocked out of orbit, just gone. And then new geographic...

from reading_fox

Not one of Bear's best. The basic premise is very very similar to David Brin's Earth. Brin does it much much better. This book was written in the 80's much like Earth, but set only a few years ahead in the middle 90s. Little change in the predicted technology. The basic premise is that Aliens hav...