Legacy, Vol. 1 FROM OUR EDITORS
In this sci-fi novel, young Olmy Ap Sennon embarks on an unusual mission to the protected world of the Earth-like Lamarckia to find out more about the planet and its life, and discovers how a huge group of illegal immigrants has changed it. "If anyone is the complete master of the grand-scale SF novel, it's Bear..."-- Booklist.
ANNOTATION
Bear's stunning creation, The Way--a tunnel through time and space, with exits into a million different versions of Earth--has intrigued readers for years. In this SF blockbuster, the Way is further explored, when a young Hexemon agent is given the assignment to investigate the illegal emigration of 4,000 Naderites to this world.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this sequel to EON, Greg Bear continues to explore the possibilities presented by the asteroid Thistledown, a remnant of a lost human civilization. The Way is a tunnel through space and time that leads to other worlds, some more like planet Earth than Earth itself. It is perhaps the most formidable discovery in Thistledown and with such an important discovery comes dispute as to the nature of the Way and how it should be used.
The Way can only be reached through Axis City, the only space station of Thistledown. The ruling body of Axis City, the Hexamon, has decreed that other worlds reached by The Way must be left untouched as an insurance against future needs of the human race. But then the Hexamon hear of a group of clandestine colonists who have settled in one of the new worlds. Olmy Ap Sennon is an eager young career soldier who must go and investigate this illegal colony, and at the same time confront his own humanity. As he witnesses the hardship and beauty of the outlaw human colony, he learns what it means to struggle with war, ecological disasters, love, and death.
SYNOPSIS
" In this sequel to EON, the Way is a tunnel through space and time that leads to other worlds; some very similar to earth. It's a most formidable discovery and with such an important find comes disputes as to the nature of the Way and how it should be used.
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FROM THE CRITICS
BookList - Roland Green
In "Legacy"'s predecessor, "Eon" (1985), part of Earth's population escaped a nuclear war by traveling through time along a path called the Way. As the sequel commences, the Way has been in use for some time, and dissidents have found ways to drop out more thoroughly than a"ny 1960s hippie ever did. One such dropped-out group consists of 4,000 antitechnological Naderites, to whom a troubleshooter named Olmy is dispatched. He finds them on a settled, Earthlike world and their society taking a host of radically different directions, all of which Bear works out with his accustomed literacy, scientific accuracy, and deft characterization. As much an exercise in world building and social experimentation as a conventional story, the novel will not disappoint "Eon"'s fans and, since Bear really keeps it moving, stands well enough to be read on its own.
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