The End of Eternity: A Novel

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One of Isaac Asimovs SF masterpieces this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimovs single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read. 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 Harlans 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 always costs. During one of his assignments Harlan meets and falls in love with Nos Lambent a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that Nos will cease to exist after the next change and risks everything to sneak her into Eternity. Unfortunately they are caught. Harlans punishment? His next assignment: kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.