The novel “The Forge of God” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 1987. In 1996, Jupiter’s satellite Europa suddenly disappears. An alien starship is found in the Death Valley and an extraterrestrial creature brings very bad news for the future of the Earth. The discovery is kept secret by the U.S.A. government, instead the Australian one announces that they’ve been in contact with other aliens who claim they have come to help humanity on the road to unprecedented progress.