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EBook-of-the-Month
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P
erhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe,
but the arrival of the 300 kilometer 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.
Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine heralded Eon with "The only word for it really is blockbuster...
It is big and breathtaking; the story and the concepts are ambitious to the point of mind boggling."
Greg Bear, author of 25 books which have been translated into 17 languages, has won science fiction's
highest honors and is considered the natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke. The recipient of two Hugos
and four Nebulas for his fiction, he has been called "the best working writer of hard science fiction"
by The Science Fiction Encyclopedia.
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