The Forge of God is an audiobook by Greg Bear, narrated by Stephen Bel Davies. The unabridged Audible edition runs 16 hrs 27 mins.
Publisher’s Summary
On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn’t there six months ago.
Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 16 hrs 27 mins
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Release year: 2012
- Audible category: Science Fiction & Fantasy / Fantasy / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Listener Ratings
The Forge of God holds an average listener rating of 4.1/5 from 719 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.2/5
- Story: 4.1/5
- 5-star ratings: 42% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
4/5 stars — “Worth the time”
The speaker less changes between different strings of story It’s a very very good performance. He is very pleasant to listen to and he gave the story a lot of additonal character. in a good way. Go to hell earth— Raphael Huber, Audible listener
4/5 stars — “reader was good.”
story was very slow at times and I grabbed this book because the second one was so good. if I had read this one first I never would have bothered to read the second.— Raidcore, Audible listener
4/5 stars — “Long on the descriptive; short on rationale”
The whole point seems to be to examine reactions to the end of the world.— Bruce, Audible listener
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