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Anvil of Stars this. Bear leaves the human crew torn between relief that their work is complete and their guilt that they were little better than those they had come to destroy. Anvil of Stars Anvil of Stars is a science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear, a sequel to "The Forge of God". The book was initially released in 1993 by Warner Books. In the novel, volunteers from among survivors of the recently destroyed Earth are sent on a quest by a mysterious race of beings known as "The Benefactors" to find and destroy "The Killers", the civilization responsible for the