The/Anvil of Stars Forge of God (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Greg Bear
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—invasion story
- Time of Work: 1996-1997 and 2005-2010
- Setting: Earth and Leviathan, a distant planet system
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Twenty-first century, 1990’s, Robots or robotics, Aliens, space
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
In The Forge of God, sensitive astrophysicist Arthur Gordon and his eight-year-old son, Marty, learn that Jupiters sixth moon has disappeared. Meanwhile, introspective young geologist Edward Shaw discovers a spaceship in Death Valley, California, and finds a miter-snouted, three-eyed alien collapsed in the sand nearby. With the help of young Stella Morgan, Shaw contacts the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force secretly incarcerates the sick alien and everyone who has seen it. Shaw and Morgan begin to fall in love.
Trevor Hicks, a British science-fiction writer...
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