Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Forge of Heaven by C.J. Cherryh Forge of Heaven by C.J. Cherryh. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. Forge of Heaven. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. Here is a link to download the audio instead. : Volume Number. : Volume Number. Forge of Heaven. Spend $49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com. 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. Forge of Heaven. 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. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY APR 19, 2004. In Cherryh's suspenseful sequel to Hammerfall (2001), Marak's World has been embargoed for a millennium due to the illicit nanotechnology it harbors, yet Marak Trin Tain himself, rendered nearly immortal by that technology, lives on. Marak is focused on rebuilding his planet's biosphere, which was nearly destroyed when the enigmatic alien ondat bombarded it some hundreds of years earlier, wiping out virtually all life not preserved in deep shelters. Meanwhile, in orbit around Marak's World, Concord Station has kept uneasy watch on the reawakening planet for centuries. The station is ruled over jointly but uncomfortably by two human cultures: one centered on Earth and strongly opposed to all forms of genetic manipulation; the other, the Outsider worlds, more willing to accept experimentation. Among the many nicely drawn characters is Procyon Stafford, a Concord technician charged with the important duty of communicating with Marak and recording everything he does. Trouble comes looking for Procyon in the form of Andreas Gide, an overbearing official from Earth who's convinced that someone is trying to use Procyon to transport illicit nanotechnology from the proscribed planet to Concord Station and beyond. Given the elaborate backstory and complex galactic milieu, readers would be well advised to start with Hammerfall. FYI:Cherryh has won four Hugo Awards, three for best novel. Forge of Heaven by C.J. Cherryh. If I was willing to only read one C. J. Cherryh book, which would you recommend? Here's another ebook on sale (at Amazon.com and other online sellers) for just 99 cents, but this time, it's a book from one of my all-time favorite authors, C.J. Cherryh. Forge of Heaven (2004) is a sequel to her 2001 science fiction novel, Hammerfall . But according to the reviews at Amazon.com, you don't necessarily need to read the first book. I don't know, myself. This is one of the few Cherryh books I don't own (well, I do now, since I couldn't pass up getting it for just 99 cents - heh, heh). And I don't remember Hammerfall , either. I own it, and I know I've read it. But even reading the summary of the story only slightly jogs my memory. It seems vaguely familiar, is all. So. who knows? C.J. Cherryh is a superb writer! But sometimes ( Cyteen , for example), her work can be more impressive than actually fun . Well, if you stick with it, it's still going to be great. But some of her books require ambition, and I'm sadly lacking in that, these days. :-) You might remember her Hugo Award-winning novel, Downbelow Station , which we read here in 2012 (as a modern SF selection). It's not the kind of book that hooks a reader - or not me, at least - for a long, long time. But eventually, it's superb. At least, that's how I remember my first read (which was long before 2012). But many of her other books are easy reads and just great fun. In short - oh, it's too late for that, huh? :-D - I can't tell you what to expect from Forge of Heaven . But if you don't mind ebooks, this is certainly a great price. Forge of Heaven. 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. Другие книги автора C. J. Cherryh. For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway , believe the unidentified ship belongs to Pell and has come to investigate another massive ship docked at Alpha, The Rights of Man . Though Rights is under the command of the Earth Company, it is not quite perfected—and its true purpose is shrouded in mystery. James Robert Neihart, captain of Finity's End —a huge faster-than-light ship flown by one of the Merchanter Families—has heard whispers of The Rights of Man and wonders at its design and purpose, especially as Sol struggles to rival the progress of the Farther Stars. Now docked at Alpha, he must convince the crews that there is more to The Rights of Man than meets the eye. Merchanter's Luck —His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers and fake names. Her name was Allison and she was a proud but junior member of the powerful family whose mighty starship, Dublin Again, was the true queen of the spaceways. They met at Viking Station, she seeking a night’s dalliance, he desperately in search of a spacer assistant. Their fateful meeting was to lead to a record-breaking race to Pell Station, thereby catching the calculating eye of the grim commander of the Alliance battlecraft Norway, and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts. Отзывы. Дополнительная информация. Где читать книги. Смартфоны/планшеты. Ноутбуки и настольные компьютеры. Устройства для чтения книг. Продолжение серии. "The mad shall be searched out and given to the Ila's messengers. No man shall conceal madness in his wife, or his son, or his daughter, or his father. Every one must be delivered up." -- The Book of the Ila's Au'it. Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions that plague him -- voices pulling him eastward, calling Marak, Marak, Marak, amid mind-twisting visions of a silver tower. But when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world's madmen to the Ila's city of Oburan. Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life -- if he can survive what is surely a suicidal mission. The Ila wants him to discover the source of the voices and visions that afflict the mad. Despite the danger sof the hostile desert, tensions within the caravan, and his own excruciating doubts, Marak miraculously reaches his goal -- only to be given another, even more impossible mission by the strange people in the towers. According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world's people from the wrath of Ila's enemies. But to do so, he must convince them all -- warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself -- to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila's foes falls from the heavens above. Forge of Heaven (2004) Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Forge of Heaven has interesting elements but it isn't one of my favorite Cherryh books. I felt the plot lacked payoff. The major characters are basically observers and mostly don't drive or resolve the plot. Yes, the governor and the chairman make calls and send people to do things. But whenever anything big happens, it's either being done *to* the current POV character, or the POV character is hearing about it from someone else. For example, Procyon's big interview is a letdown. It's built up really well. Before the interview, Procyon is carefully coached to give away nothing and to learn whatever he can about his interviewer. So, during the interview either he should have made some fatal misstep or he should have learned something that would help later. But instead, the interview ends with dramatic action by an unknown third party, and Procyon only has a passive role for the rest of the book. The antagonists only appear for a few moments before they are disposed of--especially one of them, who is named for the first time near the end of the book, and who is shot to death right after he appears. Another thing I found disappointing. In most of Cherryh's books, my favorite part is how the worldbuilding feels multidimensional and characters have solid motivations influenced by their cultures. I didn't get that feeling so much from this book. The Stylists are important but their motivations and organization are even vaguer than the ondat's. It makes sense for the ondat to be mysterious. I wish Ardath had been a POV character. ( ) Superb. Vast improvement over Hammerfall, which wasn't by any means bad, but this is classic Cherryh. It could be written by almost a completely different author, it is very different. Forge of Heaven opens with a Prologue explaining the universe in which Hammerfall was set, the how and why of human exploration and the politics that fractured humanities factions, and then the meeting of the ondat. This makes Hammerfall far more understandable, and even though at the time Marek knew nothing of it, should really have been included in Hammerfall. The story itself opens cenuries later than Hammerfall with Procyon, a watcher 'tap' on the third Concord space station that with an ondat presence, orbit's Marek's World. Marek himself still lives along with The Ila and Hati, but they are quarentined on the world, indefinetly, until the ondat are completely sure that their actions in Hammerfall have evolved all of the original First Movement nanotechnology that existed there beyond harm to the ondat. Procyon is one of Marek's watchers - in direct neurological contact with him, using a nanotech implant, only subtly different in scope form the tech that the ondat are scared of - which grants immortaility f you can stay sane. This immortality has scared Earth - hyper conservative Eearth that permits no nnotech of any form within a vast region of space around it. When rumours reach them that illegal tech may have escaped Marek's world, they send an Ambassedor to investigate. The narrative follows Brazis - an Outsider (non Earth) official in charge of Concord's interaction with Marek's world; Reaux - earth appointed govenor for the station, and his daughter Kathy, along with brief exerts to Marek himself, who is on expedition to build a new relay station near some dramatic geological changes - consequences of Hammerfall. Unusually for Cherryh we jump about between the characters as the action dictates. It's a style of writing I always find jarring, but it does highlight the differences in viewpoint very well. Concord station is delightfully imagined, various levels of sophistication and styles, legal and illegla nanotech mods for fashion, and the cultures and factions sparked by such diversity. Marek's world seems to changing, and stabilising far faster than geological epochs would suggest on Earth. But the main critisim I have for this work is a major inconsistancy with Hammerfall, written only a couple of years before. To start with Marek's second wife Norit, has disappeared. Vanished. Not a mention. Ok, she could have succombed to madness and passed away over the centuries, but some explanation, or even a passing thought, would have been helpful. The other point is more subtle but alos more grating. Immortality. The Ila had First movement tech and immortality, but her nanotech was overcome by Ian and Luz's who were Earth sent. If they also had immortality tech, why was Earth so concerned about it? and if they didn't, as their tech overcame Ila's how came immortality was retained? This annoyed me the entire way through the book and is never explained. The rest however is excellant. Wonderful humans being humans and aliens being alien, the station is superb, and the plot masterfully belivable, unguessably twisty and just gripping throughout. Skip Hammerfall if you like, but, read this!