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The End of Eternity
The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov
One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlan's job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs. During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with Noÿs Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that Noÿs will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity. Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlan's punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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claudiuo
The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov
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Yay, finished another great book by Isaac Asimov, my September #BookSpin also gives me #BookSpinBingo for this month. Still not helping me progress in the Prompt Maze Q3 because it was first published in 1955 but helps me with Prompt Maze Q4 so not all is lost 😃

I can now finally get done my list for November, @TheAromaOfBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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nanuska_153
The End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov
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Mehso-so

A portion of human live in Eternity,traveling through the years and making the necessary changes to reality to avoid great evils to happen to the species. With each reality change the people that lived there change or disappear for the greater good,unaware of the existence of Eternity.
Although I loved the premise of the book I couldn't really connect with any of the characters and I got lost in the technical explanations of how Eternity works

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dystopianaut
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"It was as though she were a portion of himself, but a portion sufficiently separate to require speech in communication rather than thought. She was a portion sufficiently separate to be able to answer unpredictable out of independent thought processes." -Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity

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rekahlee
End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov
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As a lover of time travel and mind bending plot twists, I really enjoyed this. It takes some time to understand the world Asimov creates, but the more I read on, the more it made sense. A second read would make it even better. The big plot twist in the end was almost predictable; there was one unexpected addition to it that I found incredibly satisfying and refreshing. A must-read for sci-fi fans.

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rekahlee
End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov
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"August Sennor, the bald one (not even eyebrows or eyelashes)" ? #fringe #Intriguing #HeyThereAugust

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rekahlee
End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov

I'm getting the feeling that #Fringe was heavily influenced by this book, especially with the term "Observer." I don't mind, but I'm looking at the show in a completely different light now and it's kind of cool

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rekahlee
End of Eternity | Isaac Asimov

Asimov is the only writer I know that can confuse me with science fiction jargon while still conveying the deeper point of the story. Bureaucracy is bureaucracy, whether it's the 21st or the 2481st century.