Rating: Summary: It is a very creative book. One of the best Asimov's books Review: I've loved that book. At first, because I like of time adventures and after because the highly creative end of its storie. Unfortunately, I gave my book to a friend and never more I found the book again to buy.
Rating: Summary: Best of all time travel books ever Review: If you want to enter on a time travel books saga, this is the book to start with (and probably end with). I had read it 20 years ago, being 15 at that time. For some reason, it became unavailable, even though it is probably among the 2 or 3 best pieces of SF Asimov ever wrote. So, when this collector's edition came out, I purchased it again, 20 years and about a 100 SF books later. The thrill was exactly the same. This masterpiece deals with the time paradoxes in the most satisfying way,unveiling at the same time excellent sub plots and a deep (very rare for the SF genre - including Asimov) development of characters. It is not the bloated, lamentable efforts of Ms Willis (Doomsday Book - avoid it like the plague) that forgets to deal with time paradoxes. It is not the idiotic Timeline from Mr Crichton that reads (and is) like a Hollywood script. The only other time travel book I could compare it with would be Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge, but for the one-way travel to the future in it. Get this book.
Rating: Summary: An old friend with reservations Review: In my mind, the best of early Asimov books, full of the choice of human possibility over safety, and the technological solubility of problems being a double-edged sword. He is of his time; a contemporary girl will find it hopelessly dated. Nevertheless, perhaps the best lines Asimov ever wrote close the book: "It was the end of Eternity. And the beginning of Infinity." Read the book for a sense of what has been lost from the human vision since its publication. Perhaps the "Star Trek" franchise serves a similar purpose, imagining a human future in which we have survived, prospered and remained true to our best selves. Recall Faulkner's Nobel address: mankind will not just survive, but prevail.
Rating: Summary: Why is this book in hiding? Review: In the 1980s and 1990s Isaac Asimov, for reasons that entirely escape me, embarked on the project of tying every piece of fiction he wrote into the same universe. ("The Caves of Steel" and "The Naked Sun" have nothing whatsoever to do with "Foundation"; but somehow they find themselves thrown into the one pot.) "The End of Eternity", you will be happy to hear, resisted Asimov's assimilation project. (As indeed did "The Caves of Steel" and "The Naked Sun".) The book is unique, with a story that begins on its first page and ends on its last, and is its own reason for existing. I'm sure it's no coincidence that people who thought little of the Foundation books think so highly of this one. I second their comments.Like Fritz Leiber's "The Big Time" it's a book about time manipulation rather than time travel. More than Leiber, Asimov manages to keep the story more or less consistent (which is more or less impossible); and he throws in a few elements of classic dystopian fiction, to boot. I, too, am perplexed at the book's obscurity.
Rating: Summary: Asimov's best book Review: It is inexplicable why this book is out of print and so little known. It is probably Asimov's best, and a very enjoyable read, despite the fact that it shows its age and does not avoid some of the standard sci-fi cliches.
Rating: Summary: Worthy of Asimov and all of his readers. Review: It is truly a work of Asimov. You'll know what I mean once you read it. Actually, it's quite beautiful and has an indescribable air about it that radiates. Truly unforgettable. Asimov ties it into the Foundation series with a story told by a character in "Foundation's Edge". Incredibly intelligent and razor sharp for something written in the fifties.
Rating: Summary: ISAMOV WROTE THIS IN 1955 AND I WAS EXPECTING Review: it to be a little rocky, especially as far as his writing of male/female relationships. But this book far surpassed my expectations and the last 20 pages or so completely surprised me despite my having read and viewed lots of science fiction over the years. I have never been able to get through Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, but this I would recommend to anyone who likes science fiction dealing with time travel.
Rating: Summary: How to deal with the contradictions of time travel... Review: It's always difficult to play with man's ability to travel through time, while you always end up with contradictions you can't explain away. Asimov bypasses this problem more elegantly by isolating the timetravellers from society in a separate environment. That leaves the reader with a pleasant and well written story.
Rating: Summary: El Fin de la Eternidad Review: Para mi, el mejor libro de ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos. Es magico.
Rating: Summary: A young man's dream Review: Perhaps the best and most succinct vision Asimov presented of the boundless opportunities and risks of freedom. As in any early Asimov novel, propulsive narrative, crystal clarity, brought to life with the odd effortless detail that makes his imagined future a plausible place. A book written when science fiction was addressed to adolescent males, it might not appeal, alas, to women, though it has what for its time was a strong female character. It has perhaps the best last line of any Asimov book: "It was the end of Eternity. And the beginning of infinity." Well worth reading, and, in my case, rereading.
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