I started reading this as a teenager, and rejoiced when I found it on Audible.

Although it is a very linear story, the ideas were compelling.One weakness of the story is that it felt a little like a screenplay - though it would make a fabulous movie/tv mini-series.

Again, another book where i am eagerly awaiting to find the time to read the sequel.

I have never really read Greg Bear but rather was on the hunt for books narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, my favorite narroator. I am glad I found this book. Very interesting story from a sci-fi and inter-personal relationship point of view.

I first read Eon as a teenager, and was quite obsessed with its extremely detailed and imaginative worlds. I was curious to see if I'd still like it today, and I was pleased to find that it was just as engaging and mind-expanding as I'd remembered.

The most thrilling parts of the novel are the opening scenes, as the characters explore the multi-chambered Stone, gradually learning its secrets, and then travel further down the infinite Corridor; there's a tremendous sense of an journey toward greater and greater discovery. The final chapter is a brilliant twist that ends the novel perfectly with a beautiful reworking of its themes.

Of course, the novel's Cold War politics and its depictions of astronaut-soldiers in the year 2000 now seem extremely dated, but fortunately this is a novel about alternate universes, so one can simply pretend that the story takes place in a different universe than ours...

The human side of things isn't quite as good; Bear's handling of the romantic subplots is rather stilted and sometimes the characters seem a little too unflappable in the face of universe-changing events. But these aren't major problems, and there is often some emotional intensity in the scenes in which characters are yearning for home, or discovering that everything they knew was wrong.

I was briefly taken aback by the narrator's ridiculously manly voice (it's like being read to by Barry White), but I got used to it rapidly and he's very good at distinguishing the characters.

epic, near-future, space-adventure

yes, fortunately it's long enough that it lasted me a few late nights ;)

if you enjoy mind-expanding scientific/philosophical speculation then stick through the first few chapters of this book and you will find yourself hooked!

Thrilling epic mindbending

The surprise inside the stone and the depiction of this surprise

He makes the characters come alive in my head. Thank you Stefan.

The stone is the answer

Top 3.

Mirsky. I enjoyed the way his character was enlightened.

No. He did a great job.

The description of Axis City. It was exciting.

Mr Bear never fails to entertain, and Mr Rudnicki makes the story line even more believable. I'll listen to this one again.

For me it was 9 hours of storytelling misery. I could not understand any of the concepts and kept losing the story and the characters. Maybe my sci-fi needs are more simple and I just got out of my depth. Some people wandered through some sort of anomaly into some sort of other dimensions. They had sex a couple of times, killed each other, were cataloged in a city computer and met Cleopatra. And there's a sequel?

I just went with the wrong story and need to get back into more comfortable settings.

Mr. Rudniki - a storyteller's voice. Always enjoy listening to him even when I don't like the story.

It starts off feeling like Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, but quickly turned into something infinitely more interesting and deep, in more ways than one.

If said friend was into the concept of a multi-verse, the cold war era tension between the USSR & USA, nuclear war, space and the ability to open doors into other realities? Absolutely.

I really like his style of reading and was introduced to him from novels by Ben Bova.

the Very end scene with the Main character. its an awesome thought to a parallel earth concept