Eon

Description

"Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km 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. "

First Sentence

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.

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Other Editions

• EonMass Market PaperbackTor Books1987-05-15
• EonBluejay Books1985-01-01
• EonGollancz1986-01-01
• EonMass Market PaperbackSt Martins Press1986-08-01
• Äon. Science Fiction Roman.Wilhelm Heyne Verlag1987-03-10
• EonPaperbackTom Doherty Assoc Llc1988-10-01