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Eon

  • Greg Bear

4.24

17 ratings

"Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and scientists are unable to decide how to use this knowledge. Deeper still within the stone is the Way. For some the Way means salvation from death, for others it is a parallel world where loved ones live again. But, unlike Thistledown, the Way is not entirely dead, and the inhabitants hold the knowledge of a present war, over a million miles away, using weapons far more deadly than any that mankind has ever conceived.

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Genres

  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Asteroids
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
  • Unidentified flying objects
  • International relations
  • High Tech
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About the author

  • Greg Bear

    1951-08-20 - 2022-11-19

    3.60

    140 ratings · 96 works

Editions

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    Heyne

    2013

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2014

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    Bluejay Books

    1985-01-01

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    Meulenhoff

    1992

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Wilhelm Heyne Verlag

Mar 10, 1987

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    Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance

    May 03, 2016

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    Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

    2015

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    SFBC

    1999

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    Gollancz

    Sep 18, 1999

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    Gollancz

    Aug 18, 2009

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    New Ed edition

    Gollancz

    April 11, 2002

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    Nord

    1987

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    LGF

    February 16, 1994

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    A Bluejay international ed.

    Bluejay Books

    1985

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    Tor Science Fiction

    October 15, 1991

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    Legend

    1990

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    Bt Bound

    October 1999

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    Tor Books

    May 15, 1987

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    Tor

    1986

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2001

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    Editura Trei

    2011-01-01

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2001

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2008

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2001

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2001

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2001

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2001

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    Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company

    2015

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2014

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2014

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2014

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    1988

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    1988

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    1987

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2014

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    Gollancz

    1986

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    Gollancz

    1986

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    Tor Books

    November 15, 1989

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    ereads.com

    2002

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    St Martins Press

    August 1986

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    [Book club ed.].

    Bluejay Books

    1985

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    Tom Doherty Assoc Llc

    October 1988

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    Legend

    1987