![]() ![]() Its these sort of ideas that make the novel very readable. Forearmed with this knowledge, can you change the timeline you are in. This allows Greg Bear to play around with some interesting concepts - for instance how does knowing what you might do in the future impact upon what you actually do. As time progresses, we learn that the planetoid comes from an alternate universe, or rather an alternate future, and it is in part the coming war between East and West that has led to its arrival in our own universe. The US dominated side gets to the asteroid first and gives the Warsaw Pact limited access. Written in the mid 1980s, Earth is still very much separated into two camps - East and West. Perhaps what also helped turn Eon into one of the great novels was the political backdrop to the tale. So we have the setting for science fiction of the grandest order. The beings who inhabited this civilisation turn out to be human and one of the chambers turns out to be infinite in size. Travels to the planet discover it has been artificially hollowed out and inside there are various enormous chambers, filled with relics of a civilisation. ![]() Just before the book begins, a large asteroid (which turns out to be an exact copy of Juno which is still orbiting around the sun) appears and enters orbit around Earth. Part of its reputation must rest on the imaginative idea at the heart of the story. Greg Bear's classic science fiction novel Eon, is seen as one of the all time great novels of that genre. ![]()
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