- Time travel, Fiction, Fiction in English, Science fiction
The story of temporal engineers who meta-regulate the history of humanity through the centuries, eliminating risk, adventure, and space travel in the process. One man rebels in order to save the existence of someone he loves, and in the end the time bureaucracy is destroyed for the sake of individuality and human achievement. The theme is the opposite of the Foundation stories, where the central planners and manipulators of humanity always dominate.
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Grave, epic, classical in form and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co., Martinez Roca, Aleph
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- German, tur, Italian, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780893403386
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Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942
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