EON

Reviewed 5/05/2015

Eon, by Greg Bear
Cover art by Ron Miller
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EON
Greg Bear
New York: TOR, October 1991 (7th printing)

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13: 978-0-812-53174-9
ISBN-10: 0-812-53174-4 504pp. SC $3.95

Errata

Page 228: "The library still addressed him in clear twentieth-first century English."
  Extra word: S/B "twentieth-century".
Page 256: "Each of the visible faces of the cubes were marked with a broad horizontal cleft..."
  Number error: S/B "was marked".
Page 271: "...we'll get out work done faster."
  Spelling: S/B "our work".
Page 274: "The ostensive reason was Mirsky's lack of dedication..."
  As used here, "ostensive" is a less common equivalent to "ostensible." It can also mean "to explain by demonstrating or esp. by pointing, so I would prefer "ostensible" here.
Page 275: "...to complete the task Lenin had begun eighty-years before."
  Missing word: probably S/B "eighty-eight years".
Page 298: "The've come looking for me..."
  Spelling: S/B "They've".
Page 332: "...seven of the walls were covered by rootwood cases containing antigue books and message blocks..."
  Spelling: S/B "antique books".
Page 344: "You're going to testify before the full Nexus in a couple of days [...] They you're going to be included in the Last Gate ceremony."
  Spelling: S/B "Then you're".
Page 348: "He walked back and forty, noticing a distinctly unpleasant sensation..."
  Typo: S/B "back and forth".
Pages 357-8: "It'll take us years to sophisticated here..."
  Missing word: S/B "to get sophisticated".
Page 365: "He came to find you—out a sense of duty."
  Missing word: S/B "out of a".
Page 405: "But if I think any more, I'm going to loose all of it. Snap."
  Spelling: S/B "lose".
Page 467: "In each hand, he held a small black sperical monitor."
  Spelling: S/B "spherical".
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