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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780061054273
ISBN number: 0061054275
Label: Eos
Manufacturer: Eos
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: April 01, 1998
Publishing house: Eos
Release Date: March 04, 1998
Sale Popularity Level: 128713
Studio: Eos
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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact -- a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty rirver pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past.
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Eternity Road is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ...
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As I very first read this book it was very haunting and chilling that it left me with a sense of loneliness that I cannot explain. A sadness for the characters who embark on a journey to find the truth about a lost civilization of the Road Makers.
Eternity Road is a great read for any reader who wants to get lost in an adventure or a journey. A perfect soul searching story that will leave you breathless. Eternity Road is also perfect book that is hard to put down.
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I'd heard good things about "Eternity Road" and ordered it off of Amazon. While I waited I picked up McDevitt's "Ancient Shores." I was so unimpressed with that book that it's taken me several months to get around to reading "Eternity Road."
I wish I had read it sooner. This is a much better book. McDevitt isn't very good at characterization in my opinion, but this book had a few memorable characters. That adds a lot to an interesting story that generally makes sense and doesn't try and pad itself with the almost inevitable political conflict angle you see in most books.
There were a few questions unanswered and one "deus ex" moment that I didn't like, but if you like post-apoc type books, "Eternity Road" delivers a fun ride.
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Light fare, fun story, PG rating, enjoyed a couple of characters--Avila and Chaka. I made it to the end of the book which is not always guaranteed with my reading habits. I probably stop reading midway through a novel 50% of the time.
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This book was a bit of a disappointment. It takes place about 800 years in the future after a plague kills the majority of civilization. The survivors have rebuilt society as a number of somewhat connected city-states that are similar to how I would imagine society was in Roman times. They have little knowledge of their ancestors other than that a great society existed hundreds of years earlier and was wiped out by a plague.
They have picked up little of their predecessor's technology as most books have turned to dust by then. I find it strange that they managed to figure out how to make guns and rifles with metal cartridges similar to late 1800's-early 1900's technology, but had not been able to figure out the complexities of the printing press!!
The characters in the book set out to find a mythical location called "Haven" that legend says knowledge from their ancestors was safeguarded for future generations of survivors. They follow the trail of a previous team that was nearly wiped out trying to find it. This journey is where the book had the most potential and really flopped. They met a few interesting people on there journey, but very few. Some of the most interesting people they met were actually talking computers that somehow still functioned 800 years later!! One had actually become self aware and asked to be terminated!! It also controlled a still functional monorail system!! Come on!!
So, like I said, this book had a lot of potential but came out flat in the end. Also, I noticed (as I do with a lot of fiction these days) that the book ended rather abruptly. I knew I was in for a major disappointment when the team was nearing its objective and I only have like 10 pages left.
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All I can say is that this is a book. It's not good, it's not bad...It's just a book. I was unimpressed with character development (or lack of it..Characters remain the same throughout even if the author claims in the book otherwise). The "quest" was very hollow and took the prudish characters to predictable places and situations. Details of the environment would have been nice, but were sadly lacking. Everything is "concrete" or "logs". Would it have hurt to open a thesaurus or toss in a few adjectives?
What really gets me about this book, other than the word usage, is that even though the remnants of previous civilizations are all around them, the society shown has no idea what any of it was or means. That's ludicrous. Somehow all books have vanished except some Mark Twain (first editions, mind you) yet language and literacy remains untouched.
The characters have no functional use of "Roadmaker" technologies, yet they apparently can make guns and spectacular homes (though reportedly there is no art/architecture/music and the culture is vapid and dull). The only interesting bits were the pieces of computer technology still working as some of it developed sentience. But that was ruined by characters who tended to ignore the machines rather than utilize them.
There is literally nothing going for this book. Maybe I've read to many post-apoc. books in my day and it ruined me for current takes on the genre, but I think even a casual reader that might find this in a used book store would be better off passing it up. I spend $1.50 at the local shoppe, and must say I would rather have spent it on a candy bar. Though it doesn't last long, at least the candy bar would have given me some satisfaction.
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