Eon/Eternity (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Greg Bear
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: 2000 and after, as well as various time metrics in alternate universes
- Setting: Earth and alternate Earths, the asteroid Thistledown, and the cosmic space known as the Way
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Twenty-first century, Time travel, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: Space, Earth, Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
Eon and Eternity are among the most ambitious science-fiction novels ever published. They chronicle a number of futures for the human race and perhaps the most sweeping, speculative, and awesome future history ever proposed.
On December 31, 1999, Earths scientists are nervous. A mysterious asteroid called the Stone has suddenly come into orbit around Earth. When American space missions explore the Stone, they find that it not only seems to have been inhabited by humans but to have been occupied more than a millennium ago.
The other side of...
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