The End of Eternity
Ratings70
Average rating4.1
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Ratings70
Average rating4.1
The story of temporal engineers who meta-regulate the history of humanity through the centuries, eliminating risk, adventure, and space travel in the process. One man rebels in order to save the existence of someone he loves, and in the end the time bureaucracy is destroyed for the sake of individuality and human achievement. The theme is the opposite of the Foundation stories, where the central planners and manipulators of humanity always dominate.
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The writing is worse than Nightfall, the science fiction more heavy. The way the ideas of the book are exposed just don't feel like a novel, it doesn't make for an engrossing reading.
The first chapter is a complete mess, you can get a sense of that right from the first few paragraphs. If you can read past that, this book may be for you.
I stopped because I couldn't get past the underdevelopment of inter character relations. At one point x gives orders to y, then y obey. Next y gives order to x, x is like WFT and reminds y of his place. Which is...?
1:45/8:12 22%
One of my favorite Asimov stories so far! This one stretches the concept of time a step farther by creating eternals - effectively time police. Coupled with the idea that these eternals come different times of 10s of thousands of years, means that anyone in this role gives up their reality. But what happens when you fall in love with someone in time, when you know that time changes?
One of my favorite Asimov stories so far! This one stretches the concept of time a step farther by creating eternals - effectively time police. Coupled with the idea that these eternals come different times of 10s of thousands of years, means that anyone in this role gives up their reality. But what happens when you fall in love with someone in time, when you know that time changes?
A masterpiece from Asimov.
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I loved how he managed to fit this time travel adventure in his stablished universe.
