false <![CDATA[Eon (The Way, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178818178m/840278.jpg 840278 15 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. 4273 book 1985 Eon total:1060|5:226|4:399|3:343|2:82|1:10| 1060 3929 1394 78 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 20:40:59 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 08:28:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 18:50:32 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 16:33:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 4 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Thu Apr 30 03:18:37 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 08:56:31 -0700 2009 ]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:53:13 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:03:52 -0800 2009
I generally don't like books that have maps inside; like maybe if the author was better at conveying a complicate...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 12:43:40 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 12:48:08 -0700 2009 2 (I'm sorry)
The plot of EON is complicated, both in its science and in the political relationships between characters. Everything starts as a mysterious asteroid enters Eart...more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 23 17:52:52 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 18:17:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 15:20:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 08:32:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 14:35:29 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 13:23:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 27 06:31:56 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:46:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 1986 Wed Jun 17 09:21:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 10:23:50 -0700 2009
The premise is exactly the same as that ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 23 19:07:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:07:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 05:05:29 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 03:53:48 -0700 2009
Not really sure how I feel after reading this. It certainly is full of some very good sci-fi ideas. Hard Sci-Fi for sure.

I like the idea of the infinately long linear universe, 'The Way', created by man kind's future descendents. Within this 'corridor' universe, humanit...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 11 13:17:34 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 13:22:29 -0800 2009
I liked the premise and the hard sci-fi concepts, the execution was good for the first half of the book and t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 09:40:18 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 09:50:20 -0700 2009 1 Eon is a pretty good story overall. The first half of it suffers from outdated political motifs such as the threat and eventuality of mutually assured nuclear destruction between the U.S., Russia and China, resulting in a nuclear winter called "the Death." Some of the sections that dwell o...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 23 05:02:13 -0800 2009 Mon May 11 05:21:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 21:28:06 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 21:53:22 -0700 2008
Greg Bear's story, written in the early '80s, is set in 2005. Bear didn't foresee the Challenger explosion or the dissolution of the Soviet Uni...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 16:34:16 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 16:34:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 25 07:38:10 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 07:41:00 -0700 2009 Eon
is one of two 1985 novels --the other being the novelization of his Hugo and Nebula winning novellette Blood Music-- that moved him from promising newcomer to bestselling hard SF author, and could be argued to be the primary link between the gargantuan disaster novels of the 1...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu May 28 04:14:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 11:52:48 -0700 2009 2
After a somewha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Fri Nov 28 11:34:31 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 11:39:42 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=840278