Present Books During Eon (The Way #1)
| Original Title: | Eon |
| ISBN: | 0812520475 (ISBN13: 9780812520477) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Way #1, Amžinybė #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1987) |
Greg Bear
Paperback | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 3.87 | 23360 Users | 662 Reviews
Narration To Books Eon (The Way #1)
The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human--English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities...
And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale into insignificance.
List About Books Eon (The Way #1)
| Title | : | Eon (The Way #1) |
| Author | : | Greg Bear |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | October 15th 1991 by Tor Science Fiction (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Science Fiction Fantasy. Time Travel. Speculative Fiction |
Rating About Books Eon (The Way #1)
Ratings: 3.87 From 23360 Users | 662 ReviewsArticle About Books Eon (The Way #1)
Review ReduxThere should be a picture of Eon in the dictionary: right next to Sense-of-wonder-SF.Reading this book was like listening to a complicated symphony. Eon opens as a near future artifact, or big-dumb-object, tale largely inspired by Rendezvous With Rama. The novel then progresses through a number of movements, each more mind-numbing and awe-inspiring than the previous. It is therefore no great surprise that the book eventually evolves (or devolves, depending on your point of view)SF Masterworks 50: Welcome to a land of hard sci-fi. The first half of this book is pretty compelling in a Cold-War never ended reality, where the two sides are bickering over a planetary object, 'The Stone', that has come to orbit the Earth. What's more, many of the discoveries and determinations found on The Stone are truly mind staggering. The rest of the book deals with the resultant occurrences influenced by The Stone and what the researchers find.The suspense and mystery writing is pretty
Having read Blood Music, and now Eon, the impression I am getting of Greg Bear is that he has good ideas, sets them up well, but has no follow through and no idea how to end his stories. I really enjoyed the first half of Eon - mysteries and characters introduced and developed well, and some convincing and tense action and politics. I was convinced that Eon was going to be a really good read. Perhaps it was these early high hopes that caused my later disappointment.As the book progresses, things
I loved this book as a teenager/young adult in the 80's. It was the awesomest thing I'd read to that point, and it remained awesome in my memory. I own a true first edition hardcover in fine conditionactually pretty rare, especially in such good shapeand it will remain one of the prized pieces of my book collection for a long time. Eon also will remain one of the seminal sci-fi works of the late-20th Century. In retrospect its influence on later works is clear, its position as a pioneering work
Here's a parody of all the male-written sci-fi I abandon:They looked upon a very important object: it had lines and was a colour. She reached out and touched a thing."Wow," said Russian Democratic Federal Leader of the Military Defence of the Milky Way Leader, Tessa Baryshnikov. "There's a hole on this end and the other.""That's right," said NATO-official Chinese Democracy of the International Order of Space Division Center, Third Division Demilitarised Antigravity Chief, Steve Jiaolong."So that
This book represents many interesting ideas; not least of which , how (as readers) do we react to a future vision that is wrong?This novel is set in 2005, and it takes it a little getting used when reading this in the modern day (2014).On the whole, I usually like Greg Bear, but reading this reminded me of how limited his vision of the future is. He never foresaw the rise of technology and networked communications in the way that Clarke or Asimov did, and as a result there were some key
"Of course, " she said. "It's like touching the square root of space-time. Try to enter the singularity, and you translate yourself through a distance along some spatial coordinate." "You slide along," Farley said. "Right." I never tried touching the square root of space-time before so I cannot attest to whether it is in any way similar to trying to enter the singularity (which I have also never attempted for some reason). Still, as an avid sci-fi reader I like reading the odd bits of
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