<I just finished rereading Greg Bear's "The Forge of God."
A little bit of a downer, since the first thing ETI does after manipulating the President is to release von Neumanns to mine the oceans for H to make fusiion bombs big enough to crack the tectonic plates in coordination with the collision of 100million tonnes each of neutronium and anti-neutronium.

The earth does not do well at all.



That's okay. There's a sequel! Like with the World Trade Center bombing, the Earth's survivors get together, find the aliens who wrecked the Earth, and thoroughly kick their sorry green asses. At least that's how I remember it from reading it years ago.