Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear
Take Back the Sky, Greg Bear
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Take Back the Sky

Author: Greg Bear

Narrator: Jay Snyder

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 12/20/2016

Synopsis

The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from master of science fiction, Greg Bear.

Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system.

Haunted by their dead and by the ancient archives of our Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and their training, and journey far beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X, the Antagonists' home world, a Sun-Planet in the comet-generating Kuiper belt. It's here that Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system-including the enigmatic Gurus.

About Greg Bear

Greg Bear has won two Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards and is a past president to the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on September 29, 2018

Oh boy, this went downhill for me and fast! Venn's team of former servants (those having been recruited by the Gurus first) and members of different military units from Earth (Russians, Japanese-Americans, some Skyrines) are first travelling back to Mars, then on to Titan, before traveling to the out......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 28, 2018

Believe it or not, this book was a pretty solid 3 star rating that slipped a bit to 2 stars for a few stretches in the "so this is the alien we've surrendered to" dialogues. Descriptions of the mysterious Planet X, the bombardments of planets over millions of years, the evolving history of the Gurus......more

Goodreads review by Fredrick on January 03, 2020

Skyrines Michael Venn and other survivors of the combat on Titan flee allies who are attempting to destroy them. Their only chance of survival is to surrender to the Antagonists and the Gurus, but even then they face peril as their enemies' ship makes its way to Planet X.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 21, 2017

I have to say I really enjoyed this trilogy by Greg Bear. I have always liked his books and this series was an interesting premise on war and entertainment. The main character was really nicely developed over the course of the books, and the "technology" of series was also very interesting. My only......more

Goodreads review by Metaphorosis on February 19, 2017

2 stars - Metaphorosis Reviews The conclusion of a trilogy. A hard-bitten marine, with an accidental telepathic link to both humanity's enemies (the Antagonists) and to the data libraries of a long-dead alien race, travels across the solar system to try and defeat the race that secretly controls both......more

Quotes

"Stuffed with adrenaline-pumping action and mystifying ambiguity, Bear's series launch is a tempest of rousing SF adventure with a dash of Peckinpah."—Publishers Weekly on War Dogs

"Military sci-fi, action and adventure, and a whole lot of thought-provoking complexity."—San Diego Union-Tribune on War Dogs

"Packed with adventure and incident...and conveyed with gritty realism."—Kirkus on War Dogs

"Greg Bear's voice is a resonant, clear chord of quality binding some of the best SF of the 20th Century to the short list of science-savvy, sophisticated, top-notch speculative fiction of the 21st. More than a grace note, Hull Zero Three is a compelling allegro in the growing symphony of Greg Bear's finest work."—Dan Simmons

"Hull Zero Three is a grand adventure of scientific discovery in the tradition of "Orphans of the Sky" and "Rendezvous with Rama" -- by turns chilling and touching, it poses challenging questions about what it means to be human."—Charles Stross

"Hull Zero Three is a lean, mean, supercharged sense-of-wonder engine."—Alastair Reynolds on Hull Zero Three

"Not for those who prefer their space opera simple-minded, this beautifully written tale where nothing is as it seems will please readers with a well-developed sense of wonder."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review) on Hull Zero Three

"Greg Bear is one contemporary master of the old ways, and in Hull Zero Three he gives the generation starship theme - crystallized beautifully by Robert Heinlein in 1941's "Universe" - a vigorous makeover...."—BN.com

"The heart of the mystery is worthy of Bear in its bravura extrapolations into far-future science and moral ambiguity...a testament of faith both in human beings and in something beyond them, divine or indistinguishable from it, and it seems directed as much toward the world of today, with all its sinful affections and deceits, as it is toward the far future."—Locus on Hull Zero Three

"I loved Hull Zero Three - this book reminds me of why I fell in love with science fiction in the first place. Searing questions of humanity, a good old fashioned riddle of a plot, and excellent conceptualization make Hull Zero Three more than worth the effort."—thebooksmugglers.com

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