Eternity Author:Greg Bear Book Club Edition, Sequel to Eon. Desperately stopping 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 be... more »came a self-contained universe snaking through the cosmos.
Forty years later...
On Earth: Lader 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 exits. Because Minsky disappeared with the Way...
On Gaea: Where Alexander's empire has reigned for more than 2,000 years, young Rita Vasayza pursues the legacy of her dead grandmother, the enigmatic sophe Patrika. And seeking Earth, plunges her world into unutterable mind-numbing horror...
On Thistledown: Physicist Konrad Korzenowski faces the challenge of 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