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Summary: The ULTIMATE product of an ORIGINAL imagination!
Review: Science Fiction usually takes our experiences and extends them into a plausible conclusion into the future. Greg Bear has become the master of ORIGINAL thinking, making a future world that is light years from anything that most of us could dream. EON (and it's sequel) explores the direction that technology will take us, gives us meaning for the existence of the Universe, God and everything we find worth living for. A basic need of our species is to leave our mark on time with our existence. THE WAY is the ultimate creation. The concept of a human creation altering the Universe and changes the conclusion of time is one of the most original concepts I have ever read. BRAVO Mr. Bear... I have since bought everything you have written. May you continue writing for many years to come.
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Summary: The Anti Buck Rogers
Review: I read this book several years ago - hurridly purchased at random from an airport bookstore on the way to Bali. It was the first Greg Bear book I had ever read and set me off on a buying spree to get as many as possible.
What astounded me more than anything was the absolute detail which went into the novel. More than any other author before, he convinced me this place was real. Sometimes I found it a little dry for the mood I was in, but once it was finished I spent weeks thinking about the concepts in the book.
If Greg came to me and said "Tim, what do you think?" I would reply "Greg, great book, put in a bit of humor and I'd give it a 10!"
Great book
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Summary: Great idea, a bit too long
Review: Eon was a thouroughly entertaining novel. Bear has a wonderful imagination and good sense-of-awe writing ability. But I have to say that I was disappointed in his depiction of the Thistledown society. I love imagination, but I really had a hard time imagining, identifying, and sympathising with the archaic characters there. Additionally, Eon was longer than it needed to be. I detest when I feel anxious for a book to end. That's how I felt with Eon. Yes, it was fascinating and enjoyable. Yes, Bear has constructed a intriguing world future. But Eon needs a gentle editorial hand. Despite the exciting ending, I found myself wanting to finish this one so I could get to my next book
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Summary: Good story, and an inventive plot
Review: Greg Bear gives the reader a "new" approach to the genre. His use of todays (a bit dated now) conflicts spinns us in a tale of distrust and cooperation. As the story progesses, i was suprised to the changes that happened in the book. The use of a "paralell world" is familliar enough, but the way it is told in this book is unfamilliar. Even to a seasnoned Sci-Fi reader, Bear continues to suprise with his inventive plot and progress of story
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Summary: A sci-fi epic that expands the horizons of possibilities.
Review: I have read this book four times and I am still awed by the images this book brings to mind (as does the sequel 'Eternity'). This is one of those stories you play over and over in your head and secretly wish to yourself - someday I hope we can achieve monuments such as this (Thisledown, The Way).
This novel is packed with intriguing characters, great action, wonders of science that may not be that far from the truth, and countless other plusses to mention.
The best thing to say - read this book, then you'll know what I'm talking about.
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Summary: A sobering sci-fi adventure
Review: I never really knew I appreciated science fiction until I read this book. I have never been as engulfed in any piece of fiction as I was in Eon; the realities of a World War III are masterfully intertwined with a thought-provoking reality much different from out own but nonetheless imaginable, and almost convincing..
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Summary: One of the best Sci-Fi books ever!
Review: Greg Bear's "Eon" is one of the best Sci-Fi books ever. It's so intiguing, that once you start reading it, you won't do anything else until you finish it (I've read the whole book in one day!). Don't forget to read the wonderful prequel - "Legacy" after you finish it. If you've loved other 'exploration' sci-fi books, like Rama, you'll definetly want to read this one
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Summary: It is a book beyond the 4th dimension
Review: This book contains the most realistic imagination I've ever dream of. The descriptions are so vivid that I really could see the Way right at the seventh chamber! When I first read the book the vivid descriptions of a complicated concept - curved space-time together with several examples of using it, it just blow me away. It you are not satisfy with the 3-dimensional world that you r imagination live, this is the book. It a journey that I'll never forget, and I do really hope that someone could put it into a movie.Thanks Greg
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Summary: The title fits the reading...
Review: Greg Bear has an excellent storyline here, but the problem is that he doesn't have the faintest idea how to write a flowing story.
The first half of the book is gripping, edge-of-your-seat action and intelligent, immersive science at the same time, with a good balance of the two. The book follows a single storyline and character development is pretty good.
In my opinion he should have written two books of 250-300 pages each, because halfway through Eon the novel falls apart. Two separate storylines begin alternating chapter-to-chapter, and the book becomes so disjointed that it is a pain to read. I was tempted to skip every other chapter, reading one story to the end and then going back to read the other.
The action of the first half is too successful; Bear cannot keep the reader's interest for the second half. Believe me, I have read long novels (the Sword of Truth series averages about 800 pages).
Overall, I would give this book five stars if it stopped after 250 pages. As it is, it drags far too much.
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Summary: Innovative and suspenful
Review: Good science fiction should be innovative in the future it describes and suspensful in the story telling. Eon is a great example of both of these characteristics.
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