Greg Bear: Anvil of Stars (1992, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)
English language
Published Feb. 21, 1992 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
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.
Really 3.5 stars. Definitely a complete tone shift from the first book. Still enjoyable at times.
