The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov

The End of Eternity (Fawcett Crest Book)

by Isaac Asimov

The best time-travel story since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, by the Grand Master of science fiction, the story of Andrew Harlan, Technician and Eternal.

Andrew Harlan's job is to range through past and present centuries monitoring and even altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships.

As a Technician with the Allwhen Council, he initiates Reality Changes that may affect the lives of as many as fifty billion people - and a million or more of them may be so drastically affected as to be considered new individulas. Above all, therefore, a Technician must be dispassionate. An emotional make-up is a...

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I didn't enjoy this one as much as Asimov's [b:I, Robot|41804|I, Robot|Isaac Asimov|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320435960s/41804.jpg|1796026], but it is still pretty clever and delivers a number of twists I didn't see coming. The ending also has a thought-provoking philosophy that is summed up in this very spoilery quote (if you haven't read the book, click at your own peril):

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