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Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is the continuation of "Forge of God". Not getting too much into the plot, we see now that the benefactors and preservers of the Human race train children to get revenge, under some sort of alien law of some sort of organization or empire. This reminds me of the book "Ender's Game". Where children with special skills are trained to exterminate an alien race that in appearance wants to destroy humanity. In Ender's game, the children commit xenocide as children. In Anvil of Stars, they are trained as children but are young adults; they actually grow up in their ship and create their own culture while being tutored by AI's, and as young adults apply the sentence of the law to the destroyers of humanity. View all my reviews

The Forge of God by Greg Bear My rating: 3 of 5 stars It was interesting to read. But the subject matter is not new. The earth is a background and part of an interstellar war that has been going on for a while. You have Aliens destroying the earth, and Aliens who want to save it. The ones who want to save it arrive too late and start a program to preserve the most that they can. I am interested in the tech depicted in the book. I find the mind-controlling spiders kind of cool. In the end, not everyone is saved, only a small group. The story continues in the book, The Anvil of stars. View all my reviews