β Scribed by Greg Bear
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Like Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, this sequel to The Forge of God explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear's treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a stylist, Bear writes with a heady brilliance that communicates a sense of immediacy and credibility.
--_Library Journal_ on Anvil of Stars
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One of the outstanding sf novels of the current year is also the best book so far from an author whose versatility is continually growing. Literate hard-science or alien invasion novels are no longer rare, but a book such as this, which effectively blends these concepts and is also compellingly written, is a joy to behold.
_--ALA Booklist on The Forge of God_
The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet's mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as The Benefactors, who arrived at Earth too late.
Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.
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Follows the mission of a select group of human survivors as they search in the Ship of Law for the aliens who destroyed their planet.
### Review βLike Orson Scott Card's _Ender's Game_ , this sequel to _The Forge of God_ explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear's treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientists, the children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them. They are cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denie
### Review βLike Orson Scott Card's _Ender's Game_ , this sequel to _The Forge of God_ explores the issues of morality and justice, using children as its vehicle. Bear's treatment differs, however, in that his characters have already lost their innocence and face their destiny with open eyes. As a
**The "provocative and entertaining follow-up" to *The Forge of God*: Exiled from their planet, humans unite with one alien race in the fight against another (*Publishers Weekly).*** The Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategist
Follows the mission of a select group of human survivors as they search in the Ship of Law for the aliens who destroyed their planet.