The Forge of God

Pretty decent, kind of an “infodump” style book though. All the characters were basically plot devices, it was fairly difficult to tell them apart at times. Some very interesting concepts though, and I rather enjoyed it.

This is the second book by Greg Bear that I've read. The first was Blood Music which I loved. This book did not live up to my expectations unfortunately. It's just kind of boring. The characters have no personality. I couldn't even name them or tell you which character did which thing. Except for the religious US President. The ending is very exciting and by far the best part of the book. But then just a few pages later the ending is more or less undone. The Earth is destroyed, a select few are saved. They get put in cryogenic sleep and wake up to a brand new Earth built for them. I'll probably read book 2 at some point as I hear that its better, but I don't feel any urge to do so anytime soon.

Would have given it 3.5 out of 5 if that were available.