Amazon.com Review
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 ...

• "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)."


• "I'm no theorist, but I don't see lightning as a reliable or controllable powersource for any future civilization."


• "It seemed like I was reading the author's notes to himself, which was annoying."


• "Highways are still called highways. Cars are called hojjies."


• "So much of 'Eternity Road' is ridiculous and contrived (beginning with the premise!) that it becomes annoying."


• "The book is liberally sprinkled with these kinds of undeveloped facts ..."