The Forge of God

By: Greg Bear

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.

Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate.

©1987 Greg Bear (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Worth the time

What made the experience of listening to The Forge of God the most enjoyable?

The speaker

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

less changes between different strings of story

Have you listened to any of Stephen Bel Davies’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

It's a very very good performance. He is very pleasant to listen to and he gave the story a lot of additonal character. in a good way.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Go to hell earth

reader was good.

story was very slow at times and I grabbed this book because the second one was so good. if I had read this one first I never would have bothered to read the second.

Long on the descriptive; short on rationale

The whole point seems to be to examine reactions to the end of the world.

Spellbinding & Terrifying

This is one of the best sci-fi novels I have EVER READ!

Alien beings bring contradictory messages to the people of Earth. Which are you going to believe?! How can you discover what the truth really is? How should mankind react to these puzzling visitors from another world? How much should you make public? These are questions that some of the Earth's leaders have to ask themselves and the "experts" with whom they consult. The messages the alien beings bring are unsettling, to say the least! And throughout the story, the tension and sense of foreboding builds, but you can't put the book down! You've GOT to find out what's going to happen! You tell yourself it's just a work of fiction, but that doesn't untie the knot in your stomach or let the rest of your body or mind relax. The characters pull you into their world, and their emotions are contagious! You'll feel like you're on an emotional roller coaster ride, if you read this book. It's a gripping adventure into the unknown!

It's a good story, very well written and performed

Not a bad story, it simply didn't draw me in and hold my attention like I had expected.

Huge pay off

What a treat this book was, a little slow to start but with a huge payoff at the end, anxiety is what this book should be called.

Capable but uninspired.

There is little to set this apart from the myriad “first contact” books. A third of the way through I got the sinking suspicion this was a “first act” which existed only to set up sequels.

To much hopeless despair.

It wasn’t a bad book, but just not my taste. The characters were all pretty pointless. There was very little any of them could do. The entire human race was just on for the ride. It was very depressing, and I don’t like depressing stories.

Kaboom!

Read it 4ish times. Listened too it 3. He did something right. Time for the sequel for a 3rd time.

Amazing!

Thank you audible. I have been waiting years for the audible version of this novel, and am not disappointed. In my opnion this is Bear's best work. A perfect balance of science and drama, with very compelling characters. It builds slowly but brilliantly to its inevitable, terrifying, and heart breaking climax. Though it is bleak in some ways, and frightening, there is the ever present flicker of hope throughout. It is thoughtful, intelligent and haunting... A science fiction classic.