Eon: 1

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I might be mistaken of course, but as I have only so much time and an ever growing TBR, I’m glad to cut some corners and be judgemental based on a too small sample rate. Paragraph breaks vary according to the post I’m examining in the app reader, but there doesn’t seem to be a pattern; whether it’s a blogger using the classic format to edit or the block editor I don’t know, but even my own posts vary. You are right that science haters do exist, or similarly, regimes that do bad stuff, but that wasn’t my point, I just think those dichotomies were quite one dimensional in the book. And to add fuel to the fire a mysterious object arrived in our solar system from who knows where that America gets to first and controls access to. This sounds like a distillate of the worst YA tropes wrapped up in a “serious” cloak… I know what you mean when you say that having read many books in the genre it takes something exceptional to keep your interest focused, and this one clearly is not.

Then, when the war came, I felt the anguish and grief of The Death; I thought deeply about the horrors of nuclear weapons and the devastation they will someday bring.With Eon, Bear does not suffer this problem; he tells a story that leads straight from extrapolation of the consequences of the Idea he had. But it isn't giving the Americans a technological edge, only offers confounding mysteries and a devestating vision of their future that they seem powerless to avoid. Considering the alternate universes and time-lines being casually tossed about here, that kind of thing shouldn’t even be an issue. The exploration of long abandoned cities from Humanity’s far future, the discovery of the Way, and the elements of transhumanism all combine to make this one of my favorite books. Not that books can’t be serious, but then it needs to tick other boxes, believable emotions for one.

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 there's a library that appears to recount the history of Earth, but this history includes events in the future of our team, and even predicts the war they wanted to avoid. Non posso dire di più per non rovinare la sorpresa, ma mi piacerebbe tanto avere uno di quei marchingegni per l'apprendimento veloce disponibili in biblioteca.

To make matters more confusing, some of the politicians kept switching allegiances or revealing their true motives even before I got to understand their original pretense, and thus fully appreciate the switch they pulled. With Earth’s presence, however, it would be possible to abandon the Way once again and go into orbit around Earth. Il romanzo è scritto prima della caduta della Cortina di Ferro, ma i temi della guerra e delle contrapposizioni tra ideologie sono comunque (e purtroppo) attuali.

And so one must wonder the extent to which these people still possess “human nature”, whatever that might be. Explorations and adventures inside “The Stone” (the name humans give to the gigantic asteroid shaped B. But eventually I for one did not really like the amount of this idea that is focused upon in an SF book.S. Army, the State Department, the International Food Protection Association, and Homeland Security on matters ranging from privatizing space to food safety, the frontiers of microbiology and genetics, and biological security. So it's the house in House of Leaves (which was the same house that was in House, an old horror movie from 1986) only it's in the sky with scientists.