Eternity Author:Greg Bear Greg Bear returns to the wonder of his acclaimed novel, "Eon." To and Earth struggling from the ravages of nuclear Death. To the amazing asteroid-starship Thistledown, its cyber-civilization not quite from our far future. And the the Way - an endless corridor, carved from the mathematics of space, slicing across universes. — Desperately stopping ... more »an invasion by the nonhuman Jarts, Thistledown severed its link to the Way: and as the asteroid settled in Earth Orbit, as scientist Patricia Vasquez tried and failed to reclaim her family and her past, and as a flying city hurtled at near lightspeed down the Way, the tunnel vanished - and became a self-contained universe snaking through the cosmos.
Forty years later:
On Earth: Leader of the first expedition to Thistledown Garry Lanier has grown old, bitter, weary, unwilling to live. Suddenly he reunites with General Pavel Mirsky - who cannot possibly exist. Because Mirsky disappeared with the Way...
On Gaia: Where Alexander's empire has reigned for more than 2,000 years, young Rita Vaskayza pursues the legacy of her dead granmother, the enigmatic sophe Patrikia. And, seeking Earth, plunges her world into unutterable, mind-numbing horror...
On Thistledown: Physicist Konrad Korzenowski faces the challenge to two lifetimes. He was murdered for creating the Way and resurrected to oversee the Sundering; now a growing faction want Korzenowski to reopen the corridor - no matter what the risk.
And it is here that a former defense chief will find the ancient remains of a Jart, and soon learn how disastrously humans have underestimated their ancient enemy...« less
It is an age of pain and wonder: on Earth, struggling from the ravages of nuclear war; on the Thistledown, the amazing asteroid-starship form the far future; and in the Wat, the infiniet corridor that slices across universes borth human and inhuman.
But now an impossible visitor form the end of Time comes to take a handful of voyagers into space-time, where they must destory the ultimate marvel of science