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Harlan devises a plan to alter the timeline and prevent the creation of Eternity. He believes that eliminating Eternity will allow humanity to live in the present moment and experience the full range of human emotions. Harlan enlists the help of R. Gohrlay, a robot with advanced intelligence.
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Plot and story summary for The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov. In the future, humanity uses time travel to construct Eternity, an organization outside time which aimed to improve human happiness by observing human history and, after careful analysis, directly making small actions that cause reality changes, as well as to help establish trade ...
Jan 18, 2022 · Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity combines ideas about time travel with a questioning of the direction humanity takes over millions of years.
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Time travel has been discovered in the 27th century, enabling an organization of Eternals to send agents back and forth in time to identify and implement changes for the betterment of human society. Technician Andrew Harlan violates the Eternals’ Basic Principles by falling in love with a subject in a future century. A central issue of the plot bec...
Much of this novel consists of the familiar, almost overwrought, recomplicated situations familiar from most of Asimov’s novels and short works (virtually all of which are mysteries or puzzles to some degree, the most prominent exceptions, like “The Ugly Little Boy” and “The Bicentennial Man,” being his most popular stories), and its depiction of f...
Page references are to the 2011 Tor/Orb trade paperback edition, shown below. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov; Tor/Orb 2011. Cover art JupiterImages. 1. Technician 1. Andrew Harlan is a Technician, one of a group of Eternals who travels in time, though they are limited to anything forward of the 27th Century. He enters a “kettle,” a chamber lik...
Among the summaries and analysis available for The End of Eternity, there are 1 Full Study Guide, 1 Short Summary and 3 Book Reviews.
The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan was special.
One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF...
