THE FORGE OF GOD

Greg Bear

$5.95 - Hard Cover w/sleeve

First Printing: September 1987

ISBN:  0-312-36021-6

 Excellent Condition - One Owner

June 25, 1996:
Arthur Gordon, former science adviser to an assassinated President, is spending a quiet evening in the country with his wife, Francine; their son, Marty; Francine's sister; and her family.  Gordon has retired from government service; he looks forward to a peaceful life while he writes a memoir of his years in the corridors of power.  But a simple phone call shatters their calm, setting in motion a chain of events that will have devastating consequences.  An old friend has some very interesting news for Arthur Gordon: Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has vanished, Not a trace remains.

September 28, 1996:
Edward Shaw, professor of geology at the University of Texas, is on a field trip with two teaching fellows, surveying an area of Death Valley near Furnace Creek.  The area is well known; Edward can't understand how anyone could possibly have missed a 500-foot-high cinder cone, the remnants of an extinct volcano.  But it isn't on any map of the area.  Then the mystery of the uncharted mountain pales as Shaw and his companions make an even more astounding discovery.

October 1, 1995:
The Government of Australia announces that an enormous granite mountain, a nearly perfect duplicate of Ayers Rock, has been discovered in Central Australia.  It wasn't there six months before....

The author draws together these tantalizing strands of scientific mystery to create a compelling novel of alien invasion, and a passionate love song to planet Earth.