Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780575073166
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0575073160
Label: Gollancz
Manufacturer: Gollancz
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: April 11, 2002
Publisher: Gollancz
Studio: Gollancz

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Rating: - So near and yet so far
Eon could have been a classic among the canon of epic SF. The basis of the story is immediately appealing, offering as it does the promise of mysteries and wonders. And initially the book delivers. The first quarter is full of exploration and discovery, taking the reader to exotic places and revealing fascinating technologies. But here's the `however'. Quite suddenly the book takes a different tack. We become drowned in scientific detail and political intrigue. There's so much of both that all the ... Read More

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Rating: - excellent 'SCI-FI' science fiction
This book is in the mould of Arthur C Clarke, a tale of humanity in the future meeting the alien unknown. Very well written and accessible to readers, the story moves forward all the time, you never get the feeling you are reading a big book (it is quite thick). The science is covered in detail but without overwhelming or boring the reader - this is a trap that SciFi can fall into with this style of book.
I enjoyed it immensely. One of the better books in the SF masterworks series.

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Rating: - Perhaps the greatest SF novel of our time
This is a truly astonishing book, which encapsulates all that is good about SF in the latter part of the 20th century.

The book focuses primarily on the impact that an artifact from the future has on the world when it unexplainedly appears in orbit around Earth. The fact that the future it comes from is not quite "our" future adds to the mystery. The struggle between the major powers on Earth to control this artefact, and ultimately its secrets, is exceptionally well presented by Bear, who ... Read More

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Rating: - Big Science: Great Characters. Works on all levels
Although 'Blood Music' received more attention from the SF community , this is probably the book in which Bear set the standard for his subsequent work.
It's Hard SF/Big Science at its hardest, and in one sense can be seen as a 'Rendezvous with Rama' for the Nineteen Eighties.
Bear should also be applauded for his portrayal of female characters as in this and subsequent novels he places strong female characters centre-stage, in this case, Patricia Luis Vasquez, a young gifted physics student ... Read More

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Rating: - The Pleasure is in the Journey.
This is the sort of book I love. HUGE SciFi in the vein of Iain M Banks and the Culture. I really enjoy these books where the pleasure is in the details of the weird and wonderful stuff that the author has put in his world rather than where the story is going. Another is Cryptinomican by Neil Stephenson.

Well worth a read.

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