Eon - Greg Bear • BookLikes (ISBN:0812531590)

Eon

by: Greg Bear (author)

Format: mass market paperback

ISBN: 9780812531596 (0812531590)

Publish date: October 28th 1988

Publisher: Tor Books

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Science Fiction, Space, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel, Hard Science Fiction

Series: The Way (#1)

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"Of course, " she said. "It's like touching the square root of space-time. Try to enter the singularity, and you translate yourself through a distance along some spatial coordinate." "You slide along," Farley said. "Right." I never tried touching the square root of space-time before so I cannot atte...

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Imagine an alternate history in which the cold war hadn't ended in 1989 and had instead continued to intensify. 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. If the Soviets believed the Americans we...

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16 years ago

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This is science fiction in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke, indeed when an asteroid appears in a nova-like burst of radiation and sails neatly into an orbit round the Earth and Moon, one is instantly reminded of Rendez-vous with Rama, but this artifact is not alien. The Clarke tradition is to ta...

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