Excerpt from The End of Eternity

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I am currently embroiled in Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity. Do I have to say it’s science fiction? This is a time travel tale that will challenge many of your ideas of time travel and paradoxes.

“If some lives were shortened, more were lengthened and made happier. A great work of literature, a monument of Man’s intellect and feeling, was never written in the new Reality, but several copies were preserved in Eternity’s libraries, were they not? And new creative works had come into existence, had they not?”

Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity

Ackk! Amazon’s description included a spoiler! Now I’m ticked off!

Here is the portion of Amazon’s description which is not a spoiler. Don’t read the rest of Amazon’s description before reading the book!

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.

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arelireads

June 17, 2015 at 5:16 am

Ohh. I’m so curious! I haven’t heard of that book yet.

Eustacia Tan

June 17, 2015 at 3:13 am

That’s deep. I like it!

Thanks for having dropped by my blog!

writenote1

June 16, 2015 at 6:55 pm

I’m not a sci-fi fan so I probably wouldn’t go for this. However, I agree – so annoying when reviews/blurbs give away spoilers.

Claudia {SparrowHawk}

June 16, 2015 at 12:24 pm

What an intriguing teaser, I would want to keep reading for sure! Great post 🙂

Literary Feline

June 16, 2015 at 9:50 am

I hate it when book synopses give away too much. Thank you for sparing us. 🙂 This does sound like it would be an interesting read. I don’t often read books with time travel themes, but I do enjoy them when I do.

Beth F

June 16, 2015 at 8:35 am

I too like time travel stories I haven’t read this one, though I’ve read others he wrote.

jonesjar

June 16, 2015 at 7:54 am

I have read a lot of his works but not that one. Sounds like a really interesting story line.

nadz2014

June 16, 2015 at 6:54 am

Interesting teaser but I don’t this one is for me. Hope you are enjoying it. Happy Reading. Here is mine
http://totallyaddictedtoreading.blogspot.com/2015/06/teaser-tuesday-15.html

Kim@Time2Read

June 16, 2015 at 6:25 am

I hate when the synopsis includes spoilers! Thanks for the warning. Hope you can enjoy the book anyway.

Kathy Martin

June 16, 2015 at 6:24 am

I thought I’d read all of Asimov’s science fiction but I don’t think I’ve read this one. I’m teasing Ever After by Jude Deveraux on my adult blog this week. It’s a romance with ghosts. Happy reading!