Forge of Heaven
Forge of Heaven

Author: C. J. Cherryh

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0061743909

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From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars, now in mass market. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station holds the balance of the universe within its carefully regulated worlds. For, created to carefully monitor the crucial desert planet below, it lies in the tenuous intersection between the territories of Earth and the alien Ondat. Marak Trin Tain has saved a planet′s people from total destruction, when the implacable ondat sent down a hammerfall to destroy the planet and keep its deadly nanoceles from changing life and evolution forever. But the regrowing planet is fragile, and a deadly cataclysm could destroy Marak--and with him, the hope for peace within the universe. Meanwhile, on Concord, an unexpected ship from Earth disrupts the uneasy truces between human and alien, and the consequences could restart the terrible Gene Wars that once destroyed most of humanity.

The Forge of God
The Forge of God

Author: Greg Bear

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1497607205

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This doomsday masterpiece from the author of Eon and Hull Zero Three was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it—a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe—a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the earth’s core, flashes of light among the asteroids—it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In The Forge of God, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet being torn apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on earth? Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, The Forge of God is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail.

Forge of Heaven
Forge of Heaven

Author: C. J. Cherryh

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781417800032

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From the Hugo Award-winning author of Hammerfall comes the second volume in the Gene Wars epic, which further explores this captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy dtente.

Anvil of Stars
Anvil of Stars

Author: Greg Bear

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2012-07-02

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0575123354

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A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them. They are cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is both obedient and beyond their control. They are frightened. And they are making war against entities whose technologies are so advanced, so vast, as to dwarf them. Against something whose psychology is ultimately, unknowably alien.

The Forge
The Forge

Author: José María Escrivá de Balaguer

Publisher: Scepter Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780933932562

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The Forge is the third collection of St. Josemaría's refreshingly brief but profoundly weighty reflections and meditations on how to live the Christian life to its absolute fullest.Like The Way and Furrow, it gives you practical and pointed material for meditation that will help you take your spiritual responsibilities more seriously and move ever closer to the all-consuming forge of God's love.

Heaven No Hell
Heaven No Hell

Author: Michael DeForge

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781770464353

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"One of the most inventive and prolific cartoonists working today."—Vulture In the past ten years, Michael DeForge has released eleven books. While his style and approach have evolved, he has never wavered from taut character studies and incisive social commentary with a focus on humor. He has deeply probed subjects like identity, gentrification, fame, and sexual desire. In “No Hell,” an angel’s tour of the five tiers of heaven reveals her obsession with a haunting infidelity. In “Raising,” a couple uses an app to see what their unborn child would look like. Of course, what begins as a simple face-melding experiment becomes a nightmare of too-much-information where the young couple is forced to confront their terrible choices. “Recommended for You” is an anxious retelling of our narrator’s favorite TV show—a Purge-like societal collapse drama—as a reflection of our desire for meaning in pop culture. Each of these stories shows the inner turmoil of an ordinary person coming to grips with a world vastly different than their initial perception of it. The humor is searing and the emotional weight lingers long after the story ends. Heaven No Hell collects DeForge’s best work yet. His ability to dig into a subject and break it down with beautiful drawings and sharp writing makes him one of the finest short story writers of the past decade, in comics or beyond. Heaven No Hell is always funny, sometimes sad, and continuously innovative in its deconstruction of society.

The Forge of Mars
The Forge of Mars

Author: Bruce Balfour

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780441009541

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After stumbling upon some mysterious alien artifacts buried in the caverns of Mars, objects that have killed the first man who touched them, NASA sends researcher Tau Wolfsinger to unlock the secrets of the bizarre ruins, only to discover that others from a sinister international organization want to use him to reveal their powers. Original.

Forge of the Gods
Forge of the Gods

Author: Eric Fogle

Publisher: Variance LLC

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0978655141

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ETERNITY UNDONE... In the Eternal Heavens, the apocalypse is set in motion by a singular impossibility-time has stopped. The ensuing chaos threatens to unravel reality and causes an unthinkable side effect; the gods...are aging. Desperate for a solution, Heaven has sent four divine champions on a holy crusade: to seek out the threat to reality and destroy it. THE MORTAL PLANE... In the law-bound kingdom of Arsgoth, Areck, a young squire of the Bre'Dmorian Knighthood, develops abilities beyond the power of all known divinity. The repercussions of this supreme gift shake the foundation of all that is known and challenge his loyalties to god and the knighthood. THE LAST KNIGHT... As Areck's power manifests, the suspicious eyes of Heaven look down upon mankind and the Mortal Plane. The champions have been sent. Reality is coming undone. The apocalypse is about to commence-which only Areck can prevent...or begin.

The Pastures of Heaven
The Pastures of Heaven

Author: John Steinbeck

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995-04-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1440674175

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A Penguin Classic In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies. As the individual dramas unfold, Steinbeck reveals the self-deceptions, intellectual limitations, and emotional vulnerabilities that shape the characters’ reactions and gradually erode the harmony and dreams that once formed the foundation of the community. This edition includes an introduction and notes by James Nagel. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.