The Forge of God

The Forge of God

Greg Bear

First published 1987Original language EN

7.67.6 / 10
Score out of 10122 ratingsConfidence 45%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
474
Pages
about 9 h
Reading time

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About the book

The Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.4 across 122 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library7.712 10%
Hardcover7.3110 90%

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It has 474 pages — longer than 60% of the ranked books in Science fiction.

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