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and I have a reasonably good understanding of physics) to visualise much of what is supposed to be happening. Human nature is an interesting one, because many of the inhabitants of Axis City wouldn’t fall under our definition of “human”. Funny that the president in the book at the time (2005) was described as a Midwestern liberal with no understanding of science/space.

surface, they find that the asteroid is actually hollow, it's a huge spaceship abandoned by a superior technological race. The Jart attempt to destroy the Hexamon by opening a gate into the heart of a star, allowing superheated plasma to enter. A global nuclear catastrophe is imminent, but let’s not tell anybody aside from these 11 people with security clearance.For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. I’d rant some more but beyond hoping the developers of it are plagued by a lifetime of lice and boils, I’m pretty much just a simmering pot of hatred about it. They tried to picture it further but had nothing to go on, so instead they had bad, non-sequiturial sex, followed by an evening of his condescension of her.

These were awesome and very-well written with good and perfect amount of descriptions, in comparison to Eon. With plenty of suspense and action, and interesting and original ideas, Eon would be an above average book. I liked the assertion that the growing technological gap between the US and USSR could prompt the Soviets to do something stupid, but much of the rest was inaccurate.The pacing is a little slow to begin with but gathers momentum to become quite the pager turner by the second half of the book.

It has the exact same profile as Juno, but much less mass, because someone has hollowed it out into seven enormous chambers. If so, I remember starting it and being taken through a room-by-room tour that was lots and lots of Tell and very Little Show…and it just seemed to go on and on and on to no discernable purpose.The technology is wonderfully thought out and described, the whole concept of the Stone and the Way are amazing, and Mr. It was a page turner, but only because I wanted to get through a long drawn out explanation of events unfolding exactly as had been previously predicted. Math genius running around with a device to check the local value of π doesn't make for hard sci fi. The first part was, of course, getting past the Soviet-era antagonism and accepting it as what it was: a convenient antagonist at the time. The flounder: I mostly liked this story minus the Gorbachev factor, but at some point after the Way, it floundered.