
The End of Eternity
3.99
591 ratings·4,049 reviews
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, tasked with traversing the timelines, observing and adjusting the delicate balance of cause and effect across centuries. But when he encounters a woman outside of Eternity, he's willing to risk everything, bending time itself to ensure their love survives.
- Pages
- 192
- Format
- Mass Market Paperback
- Published
- 1971-10-01
- Publisher
- Fawcett Crest
- ISBN
- 9780449016190
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Isaac Asimov
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Works of prolific Russian-American writerIsaac Asimovinclude popular explanations of scientific principles,The Foundation Trilogy(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.Asimov, professor, generally considered of a...
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Mª Carmen·1 years ago
4.5 ⭐️Re-reading my favorite novel by Isaac Asimov, ahead of the nine stories of "I, Robot", "The Caves of Steel" and the "Foundation" trilogy. Within Science Fiction, time travel is my weakness, and this classic is one of the best.My impressions:We are facing a Science Fiction classic with more than deserved fame. On this occasion, Asimov explores the idea of an organization, Eternity, which, after time travel became possible, remained outside of normal time and could alter the reality of each ...
Pam Gonçalves·5 years ago
3.5 Stars
Alright, let's talk about Isaac Asimov's *The End of Eternity*. This isn't your typical sci-fi blast-'em-up; it's more of a thoughtful head-scratcher that leaves you pondering the nature of time and causality long after you've turned the final page. Asimov, as always, delivers a meticulously crafted world, and the concept of the Eternals manipulating time to optimize humanity's existence is genuinely fascinating.
However, and this is a fairly big however, *The End of Eternity* does f...
Bradley·7 years ago
I had to catch up on some retro sci-fi, grabbing those old classics by big-name authors that I hadn't gotten around to yet. This one, The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov, kept popping up as one of his absolute best. Time travel book reviews always catch my eye, and this one didn't disappoint!
You know, besides the Foundation and Robot novels. Some of those are… not great. We'll ignore those for now and focus on this standalone novel, The End of Eternity.
It's about time travel in a kettle, kin...
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THE END OF ETERNITY, THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY. A galactic paradox of "time" in novel form that will shake you to your core. The epitome of scientific, outlandish inspiration,eternity with its necessary alterations to reality,the "Eternals," who act with selfish artificial intelligence and change the history of the galaxy with unforeseen consequences. The best science fiction book I've read so far!!I've never been a fan of rigid logic, mathematics, time mechanics, and mechanical field equations ...
Велислав Върбанов·9 years ago
I just had the immense pleasure of rereading one of Isaac Asimov's greatest books! I'm once again blown away by the brilliance of "The End of Eternity," in which he skillfully depicts the problems that could arise from discovering a way to travel through time and, consequently, constantly making changes to the realities of multiple centuries... Achieving Eternity, where scholars correct all human errors in all eras, is a temptingly idyllic vision of the future. However, it turns out to have seri...
Azumi·10 years ago
This year, I've tentatively decided to delve into the world of science fiction, and I thought, "Why not start with one of the greats?" So, I picked up Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity.At first, I worried I'd get lost in all the explanations and technical jargon, but the story quickly hooked me. As always happens with novels dealing with time travel, I became paranoid and couldn't stop thinking about temporal paradoxes. And this book has plenty! In The End of Eternity, they're constantly travel...
Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽·11 years ago
Here's my final review, initially posted on Fantasy Literature:Re-reading a book you adored as a teenager is always a gamble. I've often been disappointed when revisiting old favorites, finding my youthful memories tarnished and questioning my taste back then.But I couldn't resist revisiting Isaac Asimov's *The End of Eternity* (1955), partly because I remembered loving it as a teenager, but my memories were so hazy. For the longest time, until a Google search came to the rescue, I couldn't even...
sologdin·13 years ago
In a nutshell: an antisocial nerd, responsible for historical amendments to the spacetime continuum, screws it up for everyone in order to lose his virginity.
*The End of Eternity* is an interdimensional NGO, established in the 27th century (32), initially to carry on intertemporal trade (43), which trade was promoted as its primary purpose. Its true primary task is to "prevent catastrophe from striking mankind" and "to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge" of its ...
David·15 years ago
I've always felt that Isaac Asimov writes brilliant science fiction with boring characters. I love a good time travel story, mostly to see what the author's take on the usual time travel paradoxes will be. Anyone who writes about agents changing history has to explain how they deal with things like the Grandfather Paradox, meeting earlier or later versions of yourself, and so on. There are a handful of well-known ways to deal with these issues (alternate timelines, a deterministic universe, spec...
Manny·17 years ago
If you haven't delved into Isaac Asimov's sci-fi masterpiece, The End of Eternity, you're missing out on a time-travel story where altering the past is the name of the game. The Eternals, a clandestine and immensely powerful organization, wield time machines. They hop through time, tweaking events "for the betterment of humanity." Of course, as you might suspect, it becomes increasingly murky whether humanity actually benefits from their meddling. The agents responsible for these alterations are...




