Excerpt - Back Cover: "... its uniqueness arises from Bear's hold imagination. Bear is a writer of passionate vision. Eon is his grandest work yet." -4OÇUS oII~III. ..."
Excerpt - Back Cover: "... science and human interest intersect ingeniously in the prequel to Bear's Eon and Eternity. ... This is a stunning SF novel that ..."
Excerpt - page 21: "... griz- zly bears cannot distinguish the level of danger an intruder poses. Under some circumstances, they will come after you with the same determined intensity they used for eons against the likes of the Saber-toothed Tiger, the North American ..."
Excerpt - page 24: "... White Bear Lake itself was a vision, carved eons ago by retreating glaciers-a twenty-five-hundred-acre sheet of crystal-clear water, six ..."
Excerpt - page 1: "... spoke of- the structure that had been taking shape for eons-was the whole community of plants and animals that made up the ecosystem in which the bear existed. At the beginning of this century when the bear ..."
