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The End of Eternity
Published 1955 by Doubleday · 191 pages
Hugo · 1956
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6 award entries · 4 books · 3 wins · 1956–1984
Synopsis
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of an organization that exists outside of time and makes carefully calculated Reality Changes to minimize human suffering across the centuries. When he falls in love with a woman from a specific time period, he is drawn into a conspiracy that threatens to destroy Eternity itself, forcing him to choose between temporal control and the uncertain freedom of unmanaged human progress.
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