![]() By the time Eternity was written in 1990, that was known, and Bear downplayed a lot of the Cold War plot events that were already established in the Eon universe. This is the 1990 sequel to Greg Bear's 1985 Eon.Įon was a very good hard-sf novel, that unfortunately has come to suffer from being written at a time (1985) when nobody knew the Soviet Union was about to go out with a whimper rather than a bang. You just have to interpret the book in the right way, and not expect the impossible. ![]() We put Eon and Eternity underneath it, and they were exactly the right size to keep it level - they stayed there for several years, until we got around to buying a new couch, and we never had a minute of trouble with them. I got back from my trip, and discovered that two castors had somehow come off the living room couch. All these zillions of years and squillions of parsecs, and it's about as inspiring as the back of a cereal packet.īut if I've given the impression that these books are useless, I'd like to correct that. ![]() van Vogt, whom Damon Knight memorably described as "a pygmy writer working on a giant typewriter". I don't disagree, though I think I'm even more reminded of A.E. Chris was saying the other day that Bear reminded him of Asimov. It was pretty dull, but somehow I bought the second one too, and it was even duller. I think I had read most of it, or even all of it, before I arrived in California. ![]() I saw positive references to Eon, the first book in the series, in Brian Aldiss's Trillion Year Spree, and I bought it before a long flight. ![]()
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