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by Greg Bear (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; paperback / softback edition (18 Feb 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575040904
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575040908
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,644,155 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Man had made the Cities, but he had made them too well. For though they were perfect, their inhabitants were not. And so the Cities rejected their creators, threw them to the desert which lay outside their walls. But generations later not all of those in these nomad camps have lost their faith.

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* #40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. * Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in its original shorter form. * 'One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time' Locus * 'Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet' The Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Religion and science fiction powerfully combined, 29 Feb 2000
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Bear seems to be an erratic writer, but this is certainly one of his best efforts. A strange tale which manages to mix ultra-futuristic technology with religion in a story of a people driven into exile by the moral standards of their own machines. One of those books you will still be thinking about months or even years after you have finished it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A discussion of sin against a backdrop of Sentient cities, 4 April 2006
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Greg Bear's "Strength of Stones" focuses on the development of planet God-Does-Battle, the self-elected exile of Christians, Muslims and Jews from a secularised earth. The planet's habitats are living, sentient, mobile cities designed as a paradise of coalition between the world religions, but they slowly grow disgusted by human sin and cast out all their inhabitants to fend for themselves on a more primitive level. The novel charts what follows as the plot develops, on both philosophical and individual levels, with the backdrop of the cities supporting a spare, but engaging set of characters. In some ways, this is just another planetary-development novel, but it is written and structured well and provides enough surprises to lift it clearly above the throng.
To me, Bear's "Blood Music" remains the most enjoyable, original and unusual of his novels, but "Strength of Stones" is well worth a read nonetheless.
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