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Description
Due to circumstances within our control... TOMORROW WILL BE CANCELED. In the fantastic world of THE END OF ETERNITY this terrifying forecast was entirely 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... read more
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Cast of Characters/Important People
- Andrew Harlan: Andrew is an Eternal, but at risk of developing Wish-to-Time because his interest in the Primitive has been fostered in order for him to fulfill his role in the Cooper/Mallansohn time loop. He has a perfect Technician’s Touch, but his career is derailed by the touch of a Timer: the eye-catching Noÿs Lambent. Andrew falls in love and that leads him to crime and willing betrayal of Eternity.
- Noÿs Lambent: Imagine if Mata Hari was a time traveler from 100,000 centuries in the future. Who is the mysterious Noÿs Lambent? Viewer of Realities, kāma teacher for Technician Harlan...is her eye for the M.N.C. even better than Andrews? Can Andrew resist this temptress and uphold his part of the fragile circular sūtra of Eternity?
First Sentence
ANDREW HARLAN stepped into the kettle.
Table of Contents
1. Technician
2. Observer
3. Cub
4. Computer
5. Timer
6. Life-Plotter
7. Prelude to Crime
8. Crime
9. Interlude
10 Trapped!
11. Full Circle
12. The Beginning of Eternity
13. Beyond the Downwhen Terminus
14. The Earlier Crime
15. Search Through the Primitive
16. The Hidden Centuries
17. The Closing Circle
18. The Beginning of Infinity
Glossary
- Eternal: Someone who lives in Eternity, a space/time bubble that exists outside of Time.
- Wish-to-Time: The desire to leave Eternity and return to Time.
- The Primitive: The era of human existence before time travel was invented.
- Cooper/Mallansohn time loop: The strange loop of causality by which Eternity participates in its own creation.
- Technician’s Touch: When a time traveling Technician changes Time and causes a Reality Change.
- Timer: People who live outside of Eternity.
- M.N.C.: M.N.C.-- Minimum Necessary Change. The alteration to Time that is needed in order to initiate a Reality Change.
Series
This is book 2 in the Asimov's Expanded Universe series.
Authors & Contributors
- Isaac Asimov (Author)
Classification
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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