Eon
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Eon
By (Author) Greg Bear
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st July 2002
11th April 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 1987 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
512
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 36mm
360g
Description
Above our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of Man. The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different chambers to be breached, some even containing deserted cities. The furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists. But tombstone or milestone, the Stone is not an alien structure: it comes from the future of our humanity. And the war that breaks out on Earth seems to bear witness to the Stone's prowess as oracle ...
Author Bio
No.40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in its original shorter form. 'One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time' Locus 'Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet' The Times
