Bear, Greg. Eternity. The Way No. 2. Warner, 1988.Even though Greg Bear eventually wrote a prequel novel to The Way series, Eternity seems to be its conclusion, though there are enough loose ends that he could have more transhuman-multiverse fun someday if he gets the urge. This novel has pretty well ditched the cold war politics that seemed so out of place in Eon, but the plot is again three- or four-ring circus. The asteroid Thistledown is now in Earth orbit and is using its technology to repa...

I am an hardened fan of Greg Bear and have read a number of his books, i.e. Eon, The Serpent Mage, The Infinity Concerto, Blood Music and others. I have found them all to be a great and grasping read and reccommend them to anyone who likes good quality science fiction stories. The concept of this book being the second in the series is remarkable. His first, Eon was an amazing story and Legacy was also an incredible read.

This is the sequel to Eon, which I just reviewed. This book deals with some of the consequences of the artificial universe described in the first book. Because most of the book deals with re-opening the new universe, as well as politics, it's not as interesting as Eon. However, there is a large portion of the book which deals with a main character taken over by a vicious alien intelligence. Those parts are the most interesting.Overall I enjoyed the book, and would recommend it.

One of the things that makes great science fiction stand out is the big ideas. Eternity is full of big ideas. The story is well told, although it takes a while to get going, but once it does it clips along at a fair rate. Highly recommended.

Probably the best novel in the three-novel series. The concepts of humans becoming or joining a creation at the end of time and presenting data is part of the occult god delusion known as "Omega Point" which Christanic and Islamic cultists some times believe in, yet the author goes to some pains to note that he's not talking about white supremacist constructs, he's talking about humans being part of the deity-like construct at the end of time.

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 wri...

While I initially had mixed feelings about Bear's Eon, I have to admit that certain points of his world did capture my interest and I did feel the desire to read more. In this light, Eternity is excellent and shows us what happens to most of the important characters after the final events in Eon. In contrast though, the book was extremely slow to start and seemed mainly concerned about the characters attitudes and feelings as long passages were devoted to personal insight and environmental descr...

I must say the book kept me entranced to the very ending, finishing a 2am, but on the whole I really was not happy with how things worked out. Somehow I get the feeling he did not know what to do with the mess he had created. But since it kept me interested & since it is the first book I have read on my new Kindle it gets 3 stars rather than the two my assessment of the plot would incline me to give.**Mild spoilers: My objections: All the interesting world building was in Eon, the whole thing de...

Some years ago, a decade or more maybe; I tried to read this after having read Eon within the previous 6 mo. to a year. I at that time found the culture of the granddaughter's planet excruiciating almost to read through; it seemed to feel jarring, so out of place with the rest of the book, and rather boring.BUT, maybe it's just cause I'm more mature now, or what, but I pushed past the first 8th of the book I didn't get past before, and was engaged before I even got that far. Perhaps it's because...

What.. was all that? Did they want to open The Way? Did they want to destroy it instead? Who's they, anyways? And why was first half of the book spent on figuring out if Mirsky is real or not?

3.5 out of 4 Stars.I read "Eternity" directly following the book that precedes it in the series, "Eon". I really enjoyed Eon giving it a solid 4 out 5 stars. Eternity is a shorter and faster read than Eon I found. Initially while this sequel easily kept me turning the pages, possibly better than the first book did with its rather slow open, I felt I wasn't really enjoying Eternity as much as I'd hoped. This slightly dissatisfied feeling carried on for a good half of the book, leaving me both ent...

Eternity by Greg Bear3/5 starsAlthough it has the same characters and universe (multiple universes really) as Eon, the first book in the trilogy, this is really quite a different book. In some respects it was better than that first book, in others worse.I found this book was much less confusing than Eon; it managed to make the whole Hexamon society much more understandable and accessible. In Eon I felt I was being bombarded by too much new stuff all the time and this made the book and certainly

Oh the beautiful hexamon society Bear details fascinates and titillates my deepest transhumanist fantasies! "Eternity" continues some years further than where "Eon" left off ... it entices you into two intriguing societies continuing the stories of the wonderfully developed characters you grew to love in the first book and leaves you satisfied yet excited for the next book.

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 inspir...

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

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 t...

Statutory warning to potential readers: the book is named based on the time it will take to get through it.

This follow-up to Greg Bear's earlier "Eon" clinched my feelings about this two-part drama of parallel universes, asteroid starships, and space-time distortions. It's been done before and done better. While certainly a complex tale, Bear's pedestrian writing style and Tom Clancy/Michael Crichton sensibility for plot twists and character development rob the story of any majesty or serious social observation. The beauty of a mathematically ingenious wormhole spanning universes and time itself beco...

This is the 1990 sequel to Greg Bear's 1985 Eon. Eon 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. 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. Unfortunately, another paradigm was about to shift as well, and I refer here to inflationa...

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.