The End of Eternity
by:
Isaac Asimov (author)
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the...
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Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780449016190 (0449016196)
Publish date: 1971-10-01
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Speculative Fiction,
Time Travel,
Dystopia
Again time-travel. The organization called Eternity controls time. They alter it by making subtle changing in the past or future, for the good of mankind as they declare. It’s named Reality Change.In one of the time travels Harlan meets a girl and after a while, he falls in love with her. The Etern...
This is one of my favorite novels by Isaac Asimov, and I think underrated among his works, perhaps because it's a one-off, not something that ties into his Foundation or Robot series. I remember the outline of the story even decades after my first read, which is a sign of its ability to have an impa...
Pakko olla rehellinen tämän kirjan kohdalla. Olisin halunnut antaa tälle viisi tähteä, koska Asimov, mutta en pystynyt. Kirjan ensimmäinen puolisko oli erittäin tahmeaa etenemistä kohdallani, koska en pystynyt samaistumaan hahmoihin enkä heidän mielenliikkeisiinsä. Kuten tavallista Asimovin kohdalla...
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