kuoirad reviewed Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
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4 stars
Really 3.5 stars. Definitely a complete tone shift from the first book. Still enjoyable at times.
499 pages
English language
Published Feb. 21, 1993 by Legend.
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.