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This was a book with a bit of confusing content in it. I pretty much liked its basic core idea. But was disappointed with things: too much of political stance to it, and too much of physical descriptions of technology and its workings. Having written in the late Cold-war period, this has its echoes to it, reverberating nearly throughout the story. But eventually I for one did not really like the amount of this idea that is focused upon in an SF book. The technologies by itself are very interesting. However their excessive descriptions regarding their functions and physical make-up was a complete let-down and became boring to me very quickly. Eon also did not have much of the morally contemplative ideas that I usually love to have in any SF title. Barely one or two of those here and there.

Also, it seems that Mr. Bear was partly inspired by the huge alien ship from the Rama series, which were compiled in Rama: The Omnibus, written by the wonderful Arthur C. Clarke. These were awesome and very-well written with good and perfect amount of descriptions, in comparison to Eon.

I will eventually be reading its sequel sometime soon. Although, I think a reader would not miss anything great (except some of its ideas) if this book is left unread, considering there is a lot more good content out there.