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The Forge of God
by Greg Bear
dark
medium-paced
So, my re-read of Eon seems to have kick-started me re-reading other Greg Bear novels and I've just finished The Forge Of God. For a short period in the late eighties/early nineties, Bear could probably have said to have been my favourite SF author. I didn't pick up everything he wrote in that period, but I did buy and read most of it.
The Forge Of God is probably, along with Eon, the novel that stuck most in my memory and, while more critical minds than mine might pick it apart (the US-centric P.O.V., the lack of panic/hysteria/lawlessness at the announced global destruction, a conversation between two people that made no sense to me(even after multiple re-reads he still seemed to get the two people mixed up) and one character checking his watch just a few pages after having to give up his watch...) I enjoyed revisiting it. It veers off, perhaps unsurprisingly, into sentimentality towards the end, but the pacing is superb.
I think I lost track of Bear just after reading Dinosaur Summer, which I didn't enjoy. Maybe, once I've exhausted what's on my shelves, it will be time to check out some of the stuff I missed.
The Forge Of God is probably, along with Eon, the novel that stuck most in my memory and, while more critical minds than mine might pick it apart (the US-centric P.O.V., the lack of panic/hysteria/lawlessness at the announced global destruction, a conversation between two people that made no sense to me(even after multiple re-reads he still seemed to get the two people mixed up) and one character checking his watch just a few pages after having to give up his watch...) I enjoyed revisiting it. It veers off, perhaps unsurprisingly, into sentimentality towards the end, but the pacing is superb.
I think I lost track of Bear just after reading Dinosaur Summer, which I didn't enjoy. Maybe, once I've exhausted what's on my shelves, it will be time to check out some of the stuff I missed.