The End of Eternity (Panther Science Fiction) - Softcover

Asimov, Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586024409 ISBN 13: 9780586024409

Publisher: Voyager, 1971

Synopsis

The best time-travel story since H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, by the Grand Master of science fiction, the story of Andrew Harlan, Technician and Eternal.

Andrew Harlan’s job is to range through past and present centuries monitoring and even altering Time’s myriad cause-and-effect relationships.

As a Technician with the Allwhen Council, he initiates Reality Changes that may affect the lives of as many as fifty billion people – and a million or more of them may be so drastically affected as to be considered new individulas. Above all, therefore, a Technician must be dispassionate. An emotional make-up is a distinct handicap. Then Harlan meets Noÿs and falls victim to a phenomenon older than Time itself – love.

Years of self-discipline are cast aside as Harlan uses the awesome techniques of the Eternals to twist Time so that he and Noÿs might survive... together.

About this title

Review:

‘Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age...It will never be known how many practicing scientists today, in how many countries, owe their initial inspiration to a book, article, or short story by Isaac Asimov’
Carl Sagan

‘Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction’
Daily Telegraph

‘Asimov’s career was one of the most formidable in science fiction’
The Times

Book Description:

¿A complex story of time travel and time paradoxes considered by some critics to be his best work¿ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Voyager
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0586024409
• ISBN 13: 9780586024409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194