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Summary: Very good sci-fi
Review: Eon could possibly be one of the most imaginative works of science-fiction ever conceived this far. The concepts are breath taking and the story-line, although monotonous at times, is one of the richest ever told. The concept of the Way will blow your mind away, and that's just half of it! The other concepts, such as the plasma tube and uploading minds into a computer, reconstruction of human bodies and gatways to other universes, are simply amazing, the last hundred or so pages are worth the Book's length! Highly recomended.
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Summary: Easily one of the all-time greats!
Review: EON is one of the best major sci-fi novels -- right up there with DUNE and GATEWAY and THE CITY AND THE STARS for world-building detail and quality, and their equal in terms of intensely tantalizing what-if and wonder-filled scenarios. Also a rarity: a hard-sf novel containing interesting, not deadly dull, political background. I could not put it down and unhesitatingly recommends it to anyone who wishes they were born 500 years from now. One caveat: although you'll want to desperately, as with GATEWAY, DO NOT READ THE SEQUELS -- all sense of wonder is drained from them, and they plod along in terribly ordinary fashion. Read EON and keep that sense of awe alive for a long, long time.
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Summary: A fantastic storyline
Review: Mr. Bear's creative imagination worked overtime on this novel. The story is absolutley incredible if a bit confusing. I rushed through a first read because I liked the plot, but a more liesurly second read will clear up much of the back and forth and in and out. I happen to like the detail, especially when combined with his extrodianry gift for precise desciption. I highly recommend this book. Although there is alot of hard science in the story, I don't think that should restrict it to hardcore scifi fans only. The sequel, Eternity, is also recommended.
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Summary: A very good read!
Review: I was very impressed with Mr. Bear's unique idea's. From beginning to end I was held captive. Mr. Bear has a great mind for theory and although at times the theory is a bit overstated it nonetheless offers a much needed background to the premise of the story. I really, really enjoyed this novel and look forward to the sequel.Cheers
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Summary: Forget what the Dullards say, this is a Top 10 book!
Review: To the people who slammed this book as too long and too wordy:Wait a few years until you grow a brain and try it again. If it is still boring after a second read, give up and go back to watching Porky's This book is AMAZING! The reason why it is long is because it HAS to be. There are several concepts new to SF and they need proper developement. This is no mere novel, it is a historical tome of the Universe, a universe so powerful and wild that it boggles the mind. Special note to Dullards: go back to something your limited minds can handle, half hour sitcoms! For others, go get the next two books and be prepared for Eternity. By the way, where do you think the TV show "Sliders" came from???
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Summary: A slow read.
Review: It seemed to take eons to finish this book. There is a relentless supply of details, presented in a dull and matter of fact manner. These quickly dominate the book and distract from the interesting story hidden within. Details are normally good, but here it is too much of a good thing. Any sense of wonder or amazement was so short lived that it became meaningless. Very early on it became a labor for me to continue reading. I had hoped things would pick up at some point. They didn't.
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Summary: One of my fav's
Review: This was my first Greg Bear novel, and, I think, one of his finest. Original and familiar at the same time.
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Summary: mind expanding
Review: Just finished it, i have to say, WOW. I have also read Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, and really enjoyed it, but this takes the idea of hyper-dimensionality to a whole new level. . perhaps several levels higher in fact. I Highly recommend it
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Summary: Wordy and wooden
Review: Greatest sci-fi epic ever. Not! Complexity and emotion in the characters. Not! Well-written. Not! Sorry, but after slaving through this 150,000 word tome, I felt cheated. I could have had a V-8 :) The characters are shallow, wooden stick figures. Bear spends a lot of time creating a family for Patricia, then drops it like a, well, potato :) He didn't have the imagination to bring them back in at the end like any good author would have, and have events lead to psychological self-discoveries. You can get that much in a TV movie of the week! The sole positive is his apparent superficial study of relativity theory and topology, and his plot device of the Stone itself. But even that seems to degenerate from almost pseudo science to pure magic and fantasy muck by the "geometrically increasing" end. And he did what? Wrote a sequel? Yiyiyi!
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Summary: Extremly good book with new aspects on Sci-Fi
Review: One of the best Sci-Fi books I've read. Opens new thoughts about life
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