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Eon

Eon Mass market paperback - 1986

by Bear, Greg

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New York: Tor. Very Good. 1986. Seventeenth Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 0812520475 .
Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, minor edgewear. A nice copy. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 504 pages;

"The 21st Century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, MATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.
For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteriod was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human--English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities...
And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale into insignifigance...: .

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  • Title Eon
  • Author Bear, Greg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Seventeenth Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor, New York
  • Publication date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 182891
  • ISBN 9780812520477 / 0812520475
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.02 x 4.5 x 1.4 in (17.83 x 11.43 x 3.56 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Asteroids
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 85006154
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Eon by Greg Bear

The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.

For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human--English, Russian, and Chinese-speaking--civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities...

And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale into insignificance.

First line

On the first leg of the trip, in the passenger cabin of the long-bed shuttle, Patricia Vasquez had watched the Earth's cloud-smeared limb on a video monitor.

About the author

Greg Bear sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. Since then, he has written some twenty novels, including The Forge of God, Slant, and Moving Mars. A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, and they, and their two children, live near Seattle, Washington.

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