Berk Worms - Sci-fi month!

Our book for discussion on the night is a science-fiction classic by Isaac Asimov, called The End of Eternity! written in 1955. It runs at approximately 195 pages.

About the novel for Discussion:

This is 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 distinct handicap. Then Harlan meets Noÿs and falls victim to a phenomenon older than Time itself – love.

Years of self-discipline are cast aside as Harlan uses the awesome techniques of the Eternals to twist Time so that he and Noÿs might survive… together.

Critical views:

‘Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction’
Daily Telegraph

‘Asimov’s career was one of the most formidable in science fiction’
The Times

‘A gripping Science fiction romance novel with a dispassionate twist’

Reading ahead with the BERKWORMS

January 2026: Women’s Prize Winning Fiction.

Happy reading, 🐛Cazza