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.

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 ..."