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Book Review: The End of Eternity

Title: The End of Eternity Author: Isaac Asimov First published in 1955 I read the 2000 re-issue by Voyager His name is Andrew Harlan. He is an Eternal: a member of a highly exclusive organisation. He is a Technician, and his job is to range through past and future centuries, monitoring and even altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. The Reality Changes Harlan initiates may affect the lives of up to fifty billion people. Above all, therefore, a Technician must be dispassionate. An emotional make-up is a distinct handicap.  But when he meets Noÿs, Harlan falls victim to a phenomenon older than Time itself- love. It is then that he realizes that years of self-discipline must be cast aside. He must use the awesome technique of the Eternals to twist Time so that he and Noÿs might survive - together.  Would you kill Baby Hitler to prevent World War II? It's a classic example of questions that philosophers like to ask to illustrate the issues of morality ...

If/Then: A Night at the Opera

I'm not a big theatre goer. In fact, the last time I went to see a play must have been ten years ago. While I have great respect for the theatre, I never developed a taste for this particular art form. Which made last Friday a bit of an exception, when I went to see a musical with a friend from school. Our school got a bunch of free tickets to the preview of the new adaptation of the musical  If/Then  at the Malmö Opera, titled Tänk Om ("What if"). And who can say no to a free ticket? If/Then was originally a Broadway musical that opened on March 30th 2014. It was written by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt and starred Idina Menzel in the lead role. It closed the following year. And now it made its way to Sweden. I had never heard of this musical before, and I was intrigued by the plot. If/Then is about a woman named Elizabeth, who moves back to New York City after a rough divorce. As she is waiting for her two friends in the park, her phone rings. And this is where th...