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Original Title: Eternity
ISBN: 0446601888 (ISBN13: 9780446601887)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Way #2, Era #2, Amžinybė #2 , more
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Title:Eternity (The Way #2)
Author:Greg Bear
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 367 pages
Published:December 1st 1994 by Aspect (first published 1988)
Categories:Science Fiction. Fiction

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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. I think I had read most of it, or even all of it, before I arrived in California. It was pretty dull, but somehow I bought the second one too, and it was even duller. Chris was saying the other day that Bear reminded him of Asimov. I don't disagree, though I think I'm even more reminded of A.E. van Vogt, whom Damon Knight memorably described as "a pygmy writer working on a giant typewriter". All these zillions of years and squillions of parsecs, and it's about as inspiring as the back of a cereal packet.

But if I've given the impression that these books are useless, I'd like to correct that. Nothing could be further from the truth. I got back from my trip, and discovered that two castors had somehow come off the living room couch. 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. It's often like that. You just have to interpret the book in the right way, and not expect the impossible.




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A really good follow on from EON, however it was unlikely to have been as good as the original. I enjoyed catching up with the characters from EON and meeting some new ones. Where the story failed compared to the original is the ending, it is somewhat less structured and possibly rushed, where it does well is the sheer size and scale of the universe coupled with some big ideas and some nice twists.

I listened to the audiobook version, read by Roy Abers.I enjoyed the book a great deal. Less so than the first book of the series, "Eon". Perhaps that was due to the fact that the first book introduced me to so many new ideas and was the initial world-building for the series. Still a great read.started: 2010-09-24.Sep.Fri 11:07:45finished: 2010-10-01.Oct.Fri 12:14:14duration: 14h:20m:44s

Eternity is one very good novella, intermixed with an okay novella, and a mediocre one. Unfortunately, the mediocre one is the most important.Roughly 30 years after the events of Eon, the characters are trying to make sense of what comes next. The good part is Rhita, granddaughter of Patricia Vasquez from Eon, stranded on an alternate Earth dominated by Ptolemaic heirs of Alexander the Great. A gifted scholar, carrying the strange artifacts of her grandmother, Rhita lives in a deft, Greek

This, the sequel to Eon, is much better than its predecessor. Jeopardy is introduced early and the book appears to be about some things; going home and getting old. Unfortunately I still found it hard to relate to most of the characters and their varied fates.There is, I discovered, a third book - I feel that I'd like to read it more to see where the SF ideas go than from a desire to follow the characters further. I'm in no pressing hurry, though.

3.5 starsI found this second book in the series to be just slightly better than the first. It is a direct sequel to Eon. Relatively, it had less politics, less technological descriptions, more drama and dialogues. Yet, I did not really enjoy at all times. Some parts of the story were such that I decided to nearly skim through them, while some were certainly interesting. I also found the writing style of the author to be something which I could not really absorb quickly, somehow, which goes out

These books are weird, man. There are things I liked... I think Olmy is a cool character. I actually liked all the stuff with Rita on Gaia, and I almost would have liked more of the book to be about her. I really have no idea what happened at the end of this novel. Some characters became gods, others were able to go back to their old lives with no apparent consequences, others sacrificed everything. The one thing I'll say for this book is that it really pushed the boundaries from the first book.

The sequel, Eternity, is about how mankind must give up its manipulation on space-time. After the message of hope brought by the first novel, it is interesting how in Eternity Bear takes humanity back down a notch, not closing the door to the future but simply reminding us that the gods do not take kindly to hubris. And through it all, Bears astounding imagination is combined with a gift for good, clear and interesting prose.http://www.books.rosboch.net/?p=437