Eternity (1988)

La voie à l'intérieur du vaisseau a une longueur infinie ( )

"Ick." ( )

The sequel to Eon, in which man has a permanent settlement on the asteroid ship, but now has to deal with some ancient enemies of mankind. Like Eon, it is gripping and brilliant at times, but inter sped with just enough technobabble to make finishing feel more like a job than a treat. ( )

This is the sequel to Eon. Alien spaceships and The Way, sort of an intergalactic travel/time travel/wormhole device is orbiting Earth, bringing aliens with it, and a total shift of planetwide politics. Of course not everyone agrees with this or sees it as a good thing, so there are opponents. The biggest thing I remember about this book was that it was confusing, the space and time travel aspects of the device make it hard to keep up with who is where, when, and what exactly they are trying to accomplish. Not bad, but the confusion made it harder to read. ( )

Infinite way, yes or no?

It was going to be pretty hard to live up to the outstanding predecessor to this novel, Eon, and rather than following that directly this book has a rather different tone, following people other than your standard Earth humans, including a young woman from a rather different alternate universe.

I suppose you could say it has a bit more of a mythological feel at times, but a definite disappointment after the first book.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/10/eternity-greg-bear.html ( )