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This highly acclaimed science fiction work, written in 1986, suffers somewhat from age, as many of the Cold War political tensions and technological advances are now largely obsolete. In addition, it fits neatly into the genre of science fiction novels that feature huge, self contained, inter-stellar habitats. While it stacks up nicely with Ringworld, it is inferior in quality to Rendezvous With Rama and The Reality Dysfunction, in my opinion.

Boiled down, a huge, man-made object appears in Earth orbit at the height of Cold War tension and pending nuclear annihilation. Technologically superior NATO forces explore and inhabit "The Rock" and the Russkies are none too happy. Issues involving the time/space continuum rear their ugly heads and wide spread chaos ensues, in this and other alternate times and places.

Putting aside the issue of obsolescence (which the author cannot completely control), much of my unhappiness with the novel centered upon what I felt was trite and almost juvenile dialogue. Also troubling are many of the physical and technical explanations and descriptions. Especially in the Rama/Ringworld genre of science fiction, descriptions of the main character (the habitats) are extremely important.

In this respect, I've never understood why illustrations are not an automatic component of such a work. While I found the descriptive prose relative to Thistledown tolerable, once investigation of The Way, its portals and ultimately Axis City began, the tortured descriptive language lost me almost completely. As a result, the final 200 pages or so were something of a blur, as inability to understand the physical environment made an understanding of many of the scientific and physics theories virtually impossible. Can't recommend.


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Eon Greg Bear 9780575073166 Books Reviews

I've had this book on my shelf since 1988 or so and re-read it again every few years (just finished it again) --still one of the most thought provoking and mind bending works of Sci-Fi I've ever read. I'm absolutely humbled that one author can speculate and expand on such a wide range of almost incomprehensible technologies in the same story. I admit after having read other reviews, that the descriptions of complex shapes, devices, cities etc. was hard to follow and characters certainly aren't as developed or engaging as in a more pedestrian type of fiction, but the book (paperback) is 500 plus pages of far future, multi-dimensional exploration, so the mechanical characters (ya, that's a pun) were a minor problem for me. There are dozens of characters which give the expedition a sense of size without contributing much to driving the plot forward and I found myself caring not in the least for a few whose misadventures took up far too many pages. For the more mainstream characters, its an interesting conundrum that they don't have well developed emotions, because the events are far to stupendous for them to know what to feel. There was a bit more politics than I needed, and WW3 is glossed over a bit too quickly and conveniently, but I've read plenty of hard sci-fi stories where the author(s) is more adept at talking about tech, math and physics than people and their feelings--so again--I just rolled with that "oversite." In the end, the scale of man's future accomplishments--in all things architectural, engineering, time travel, astro-physical, bio-mechanical etc. etc.--dwarfs so many of the pop culture forms of sci-fi that I am normally exposed to, that Eon remains a personal favorite.
I've posted on Greg's Discussion Page. He knows what's coming.

I read EON shortly after it was published in 1985, I think. I enjoyed it then in a print edition, probably paperback. So far as I can remember, there were few if any manuscript errors. Not so with this edition from Open Road Media. Mr. Bear has been poorly served by this e-media specialty house. The Publisher of the 2014 e edition owes us all a corrected file.

, you need to lay down standards for the books you sell. Your customers deserve well crafted editions. So do your authors. Those of us who read print editions, expect near perfection as the standard. Why should be receive less from you? If a file is corrected, make sure those of us who bought an imperfect one, or an early draft of a book that's later published in more finished form, get the final file, each and every time.

Greg Bear is one of the masters who is capable of imagining worlds that don't exist and filling them with detail. I liked it then. I like it now.

Beavercreek, OR
This highly acclaimed science fiction work, written in 1986, suffers somewhat from age, as many of the Cold War political tensions and technological advances are now largely obsolete. In addition, it fits neatly into the genre of science fiction novels that feature huge, self contained, inter-stellar habitats. While it stacks up nicely with Ringworld, it is inferior in quality to Rendezvous With Rama and The Reality Dysfunction, in my opinion.

Boiled down, a huge, man-made object appears in Earth orbit at the height of Cold War tension and pending nuclear annihilation. Technologically superior NATO forces explore and inhabit "The Rock" and the Russkies are none too happy. Issues involving the time/space continuum rear their ugly heads and wide spread chaos ensues, in this and other alternate times and places.

Putting aside the issue of obsolescence (which the author cannot completely control), much of my unhappiness with the novel centered upon what I felt was trite and almost juvenile dialogue. Also troubling are many of the physical and technical explanations and descriptions. Especially in the Rama/Ringworld genre of science fiction, descriptions of the main character (the habitats) are extremely important.

In this respect, I've never understood why illustrations are not an automatic component of such a work. While I found the descriptive prose relative to Thistledown tolerable, once investigation of The Way, its portals and ultimately Axis City began, the tortured descriptive language lost me almost completely. As a result, the final 200 pages or so were something of a blur, as inability to understand the physical environment made an understanding of many of the scientific and physics theories virtually impossible. Can't recommend.