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The Forge of God

On July 26th, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it—a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe—a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the Earth’s core, flashes of light amongst the asteroids—it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In THE FORGE OF GOD, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet tearing apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on Earth? Nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987 and for Hugo and Locus Awards in 1988, THE FORGE OF GOD is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail.

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  • "On July 26th, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it—a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe—a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the Earth’s core, flashes of light amongst the asteroids—it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In THE FORGE OF GOD, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet tearing apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on Earth? Nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987 and for Hugo and Locus Awards in 1988, THE FORGE OF GOD is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail."@en
  • "Fantastische en bizarre SF-avonturen in de toekomst, wanneer een buitenaardse macht de aarde van binnen dreigt op te eten en slechts een deel van de mensheid gered kan worden."
  • "Hilflos dem Untergang geweiht Mitten im Death Valley erhebt sich über Nacht ein Aschekegel, der sich als getarntes Raumschiff entpuppt. Ein biotechnisch hergestelltes Kunstwesen warnt die Menschheit vor der drohenden Vernichtung ihres Planeten. In Australien landet ein Raumschiff, dem drei Roboter entsteigen, die der Menschheit eine sorgenfreie Zukunft versprechen. Gleichzeitig werden über dem Pazifik rätselhafte Lichterscheinungen beobachtet, begleitet von gewaltigen Gravitationsanomalien. Planen die Aliens, die Erde mit Wasserstoffbomben zu sprengen? Kreisen im Inneren der Erde zwei schwarze Löcher umeinander, die den Planeten zerreissen könnten? Hilflos müssen die Menschen mitansehen, wie ihr Planet zum Spielball der Ausserirdischen wird. Greg Bear wurde 1951 in San Diego geboren und studierte dort englische Literatur. Seit 1975 als freier Schriftsteller tätig, gilt er heute als einer der ideenreichsten wissenschaftlich orientierten Autoren der Gegenwart. Etliche seiner Romane wurden zu internationalen Bestsellern."
  • "A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth."
  • "A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth."@en
  • "Earth is threatened by the invasion of an interstellar research probe gone mad, in a study of the complex interactions--and their ramifications--between human passions and the inflexible equations of science."@en

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  • "Science fiction novels"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Vědecko-fantastické romány"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fremtidsromaner"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Online-Publikation"

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  • "Boží výheň"
  • "Schmiede Gottes Roman ; Science Fiction"
  • "The forge of God [Japanese]"
  • "The Forge of God"@en
  • "The Forge of God"
  • "Die Schmiede Gottes Roman"
  • "The forge of god"
  • "The forge of God"
  • "The forge of God"@en
  • "Forge of god"@en
  • "Gods smidse"
  • "La fragua de Dios"@es
  • "La fragua de Dios"
  • "Schmiede Gottes : Roman"
  • "La Fragua de Dios"
  • "Schmiede Gottes : Roman ; Science Fiction"

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