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The Way (Greg Bear)
''The Way'' is the name of a fictional universe in a trilogy of science fiction novels and one short story by Greg Bear. The first novel was ''Eon'' (1985), followed by a sequel, ''Eternity'' and a prequel, ''Legacy''. It also includes ''The Way of All Ghosts'', a short story that falls between ''Legacy'' and ''Eon''.
==Fictional History of the Thistledown==
Within the universe of ''The Way'', the Thistledown is an asteroid starship built by hollowing out Juno and fitting it with mass-driver (Rail gun) engines and thermonuclear drives. It is built 500 years in the future, as told in Bear's novel, ''Eon'', and is engaged on a multi-generational journey to Epsilon Eridani, around which a habitable planet is known to be circling.
The journey is meant to take 60 years, as the ship can only maintain a velocity of 20% the speed of light. Such velocities were rendered meaningless after the technology of the Thistledown was improved to include inertial dampeners, allowing higher accelerations.
Inhabiting the Thistledown are the best and brightest of Earth, who are quite diverse both culturally and politically. The Thistledown's society includes one transcendent genius - Konrad Korzenowski, whose preference for living in the Thistledown as compared with an outer universe, causes him to experiment with closed-geodesic space time in the Seventh Chamber, 20 years into the Thistledown's voyage. The results of his experiments are shattering in the extreme - he creates a unique pocket universe: The Way.
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