Eon
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Why is Eon by Greg Bear not discussed more?
Beth
May 17, 2023 08:36AM
I'm reading this book right now - about 100 pages from finish. I'd never heard of it before - found it on a list of 'popular canon sci-fi'. And I am loving it! The text is perhaps a bit bloated, but the ideas and imagery that Bear develops are fascinating and worth so much discussion.
Topics like transhumanism, humans and technology use, first contact/culture clash, Cold War tensions (literally and figuratively) still somehow being relevant 35 years after publication. I've been trying to find fanart of the characters (humorphs and neomorphs, the Frant, the main characters), maps and illustrations of Thistledown and Axis City, and coming up with nearly nothing.
So I'm curious -- if you've read this, why do you think it's underappreciated and underdiscussed? If you haven't read it, please do and then talk to me about it. I'm starving for discussion on this book!
Topics like transhumanism, humans and technology use, first contact/culture clash, Cold War tensions (literally and figuratively) still somehow being relevant 35 years after publication. I've been trying to find fanart of the characters (humorphs and neomorphs, the Frant, the main characters), maps and illustrations of Thistledown and Axis City, and coming up with nearly nothing.
So I'm curious -- if you've read this, why do you think it's underappreciated and underdiscussed? If you haven't read it, please do and then talk to me about it. I'm starving for discussion on this book!
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I just finished this book about 3 weeks ago. I did the exact same thing lol I tried to find as many pictures and fan art online as I could cause with the last quarter of the book I was having a hard time visualizing what the author was describing. I enjoyed the book overall, although I liked the first half quite a bit more than the second half.
He should. But , imo, his output starting with "Darwin" is debatable.
I read him since "Blood Music" - a cyberpunk classic and lately in different interpretaion used by Greg Egan in "Morphotrophic".
His Thistledown-Sequence (in wich Eon belongs as an example of DAMN BIG OBJECT Genre :) still rocks. Same for "The Forge of God" Sequence.
I read him since "Blood Music" - a cyberpunk classic and lately in different interpretaion used by Greg Egan in "Morphotrophic".
His Thistledown-Sequence (in wich Eon belongs as an example of DAMN BIG OBJECT Genre :) still rocks. Same for "The Forge of God" Sequence.
