Eon: 1

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If I’d read it two years earlier, I might have been tempted to give him another shot; as it was, I had my sights on other things. I mean, not only was this a human-built structure but there were actual future humans on the rock with our scientists!

It's easy to point a finger at Clarke's Rama or high-level topography math/physics or any number of alternate universe novels or time-travel tomes, but it's something else entirely to pull all of these rabbits out of a single hat. Obviously this is hard SF and a certain amount of scientific rigour is to be expected, but here it is taken to the nth degree.At the time of the writing of the novel, a continuation of the cold war in space was still a possible option. Dialogue is clunky and unrealistic, there are some really absurdly penned sex scenes, and his description of the characters is formulaic.

We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. Now, having expanding my reading tastes—and ability—to a much broader spectrum of styles and authors, I find Bear's style a bit grating.I honestly don't know enough math or physics to follow some of what he was talking about, but the basic ideas are pretty mind blowing, which is what good sci-fi should do.

I have to agree with another reviewer - there are moments when you have to put the book down and just stare into space, assimilating. In the second half of the book, the theme of ideological conflict is continued through the growing tensions between the hardline political officers assigned to the Soviet force, and their more moderate military leader, Mirsky, who (like Vasquez) gains life-changing insights into the situation that faces them after being exposed to the accelerated learning facilities of the Stone's libraries. The characters: I read this a couple of years ago, and the characters were flat, so I remember little about them. The characters were a little too obvious, a little to "best-seller" shallow for my taste, but they fit their environment and had plausible motivations and actions.I DNFed this book a long time ago, and tried to read Blood Music which started life as a short story and, should have stayed a short story.

It seemed that the end of this story was fixed about 100 pages before the end of novel, except for the minor twist that I found hard to care about - the main character dumped into a totally new and unresolved story arc. And yes, if you're wondering, I do believe that nuclear weapons, so long as we allow them to exist, pose a very real threat to the survival of our civilization. I never tried touching the square root of space-time before so I cannot attest to whether it is in any way similar to trying to enter the singularity (which I have also never attempted for some reason). Re-reading Eon also was a nostalgic experience, helping me connect with my younger self, the self that developed a passion for sci-fi largely because of Eon and others of Greg Bear's novels.I will not go into depth about the story but what we all worried about in the seventies and eighties has come to pass, nuclear destruction on a huge scale. There’s a sub-genre of sci-fi referred to as “Big Dumb Object” for stories about big, wondrous objects that defy explination or have some sort of air of mystery to them. As a result of commerce through the gates, several alien species have come to be partners of the Hexamon as well. future inhabitants of the Stone rather uninteresting – I didn't really care about their internal politics. I would say that all but one of the main characters we meet are NEVER instigators of major action in the plot, and we ultimately find out that ALL of the actions of the main characters is rendered moot by the out-of-left-field ending.