The End of Eternity: A Novel

Isaac Asimov

Jan 2010 · Tor Books

About this ebook

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.

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Ratings and reviews

I've read this before and it is a great way to pass the time. I'd rate the google book service at 1 star since their servers have been unable to find my purchased books and allow download of any for days.

Noÿs said, "You smile at the ignorance of the Timers who know only one Reality. We smile at the ignorance of the Eternals who think there are many Realities but that only one exists at a time."

I have almost every book written by Asimov in paper, and I rather like to have them in digital format, but I find these prices far over reasonable.

About the author

Isaac Asimov lived in Boston and in New York City for most of his life. He died in 1992 at the age of 72.