Eh, sometimes you just have to wonder about people. Why are there so many science fiction writers whose fondest wish seems to be the annihilation of the Earth? I don't get it...
Anyway, yes, this is another "let's destroy the Earth and wipe out everything that is precious and beautiful and makes life worth living" story. I don't know how I am so lucky as to stumble across these two books withing the space of a few weeks. (The other book was Manifold Time.) In this book the world has been attacked by machines who plant bombs deep in the Earth which will blast the world to bits. By the time we figure out what is going on it is too late to do anything. Some other aliens come and provide passage off planet to a few thousand people. They end up on Mars.
Basically this book gives Bear a chance to show us how smart he is. It is chock full of boring scientific facts and speculation, a trait it shares with the aforementioned book. Do I really need to read about the workings of a bomb when just the simple fact it is a bomb is enough? No, I don't.
Here is something I found just plain sick. This one character knows the world is doomed and he decides he will spend his last days enjoying the beauty of Yosemite. He is going to do a little sightseeing on his way and get there with time to spare for some introspection. He is feels this is a good plan. But then text says, "Then why did he feel so miserable?" HELLO!? THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO BLOW UP! Who wouldn't feel miserable?
This was a stupid book. The people were stupid. They didn't act like people who knew they were doomed in a few days to a horrible, gruesome death. Greg Bear must be one heartless SOB not to understand how devastated most people would be by that. The main point of the book is to show everybody what a clever fellow Greg Bear is. Bah!
Review from Thomas Wagner on SF Reviews.net: http://www.sfreviews.net/forgeofgod.html.
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