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- 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 between the various centuries to help those in most need.
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Brief Synopsis. The story is set in a distant future where humanity has created an organization known as Eternity. Eternity is a powerful group of individuals who have the ability to travel through time and alter the course of history.
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 ...
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The End of Eternity is a science-fiction novel by Isaac Asimov. It was first published by Doubleday in 1955.
The novel has hints that it could be a part of the Foundation universe.
There is a group of people (only males) who are called The Eternals. They live outside time and their mission is to change the reality of humanity in order to make it a better reality. They try to do this with the help of computers and they then make the changes. They prefer minimal changes. They prefer to make "The Minimum Necessary Change".
Harlan, an Eternal, does the dirty work for this group, he is a Technician. There are several jobs on the hierarchy. He soon falls in love with a woman called Noys Lambent.
This novel is the second version of a previous novel with the same name. The original writing was shorter. Asimov came up with the idea for this story by reading an old Time magazine. He thought he had seen a toadstool, very similar to the atomic bomb. The problem was that the magazine was fifteen years before Hiroshima, according to Asimov's recal...
Jan 18, 2022 · By John Folk-Williams. Isaac Asimov ’s The End of Eternity combines ideas about time travel with a questioning of the direction humanity could or should take over millions of years.
In the fantastic world of The End of Eternity this terrifying forecast was certainly possible. 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.
Mar 29, 2011 · Books. The End of Eternity. Isaac Asimov. Macmillan, Mar 29, 2011 - Fiction - 256 pages. One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the...
About The End of Eternity. A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation seriesDue to circumstances within our control . . . tomorrow will be canceled. 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 ...
