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Eternity

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Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon—a world devastated by nuclear war.  The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes.  The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own. Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly pursues her legacy, seeking an Earth once again threatened by forces from within and without.  For physicist Konrad Korzenowski, murdered for creating The Way, and resurrected, is compelled by a faction determined to see it opened once more.  And humankind will discover just how entirely they have underestimated their ancient adversaries.
Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon—a world devastated by nuclear war.  The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes.  The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own. Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly pursues her legacy, seeking an Earth once again threatened by forces from within and without.  For physicist Konrad Korzenowski, murdered for creating The Way, and resurrected, is compelled by a faction determined to see it opened once more.  And humankind will discover just how entirely they have underestimated their ancient adversaries.

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categoriesBooks, Fiction & Literature, Science Fiction
Publish date: Dec 1, 2008
Added to Scribd: May 09, 2013
Copyright:Attribution Non-commercialISBN:9780759283961
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chrisod_1 reviewed this|over 3 years ago
Rated 3/5
The sequel to Eon, in which man has a permanent settlement on the asteroid ship, but now has to deal with some ancient enemies of mankind. Like Eon, it is gripping and brilliant at times, but inter sped with just enough technobabble to make finishing feel more like a job than a treat.
karlstar_1 reviewed this|over 4 years ago
Rated 3/5
This is the sequel to Eon. Alien spaceships and The Way, sort of an intergalactic travel/time travel/wormhole device is orbiting Earth, bringing aliens with it, and a total shift of planetwide politics. Of course not everyone agrees with this or sees it as a good thing, so there are opponents. The biggest thing I remember about this book was that it was confusing, the space and time travel aspects of the device make it hard to keep up with who is where, when, and what exactly they are trying to accomplish. Not bad, but the confusion made it harder to read.
portialong reviewed this|over 4 years ago
Rated 4/5
A sequel to Eon, I did not like this book as much as the first. The pace felt rushed and the plot felt forced at times.In addition, characters seemed to be driven by events that occurred in the intervening time between the two books that never really got fleshed out. Several times I felt that people were doing and saying things that were "out of character" or being inordinately surprised by things that seemed relatively mild compared to events that they had witnessed in the first novel.Best parts for me were the passages relating to the Jarts.Overall, a decent read but not spectactular.
tadad_1 reviewed this|over 5 years ago
Rated 3/5
A sequel to Eon; nothing special.
1 thousand reads|2 months ago
_greg_1 reviewed this|over 7 years ago
Rated 4/5
Sequal to "Eon". Good but not as satisfying as some of fhis other works.
cmoore_915456 reviewed this|over 8 years ago
Rated 5/5
5/5. I consider this and Eon to be one book, and the best work of Bear's career. There's just something about an line leading to multiple universes of no size but infinite length that grabs me.
1 hundred reads|4 months ago
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