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30th Jan '13 11:07:14 PM PaulA

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Eternals are comprised of several groups - Sociologists, Technicians, Life-Plotters and Computers[[hottip:*:"Computer" in this novel has its original meaning, "person employed to do computations". Electronic devices built to do computations are called Summators or computaplexes.]] are mentioned, in addition, there are also Maintenance people. Sociologists accumulate data and analyze it for possible Reality Changes. Computers narrow down when and where the Reality Change takes place, and the Technicians pinpoint and make the Reality Changes themselves. Because of this, Technicians are highly revered, yet feared. They are also supposed to suppress all emotion because of the nature of their job, and thus rarely find love.

The start of Eternity is explained to be a [[StableTimeLoop time paradox]]. The man who "discovered" time travel in Primitive times (before Eternity) wrote a journal. In the journal, he detailed his life, [[hottip:spoiler - click to reveal:in which he is trained by the main character and his Computer superior and sent back in time to restart the loop. The Computer superior knows all of this, but the main character and their trainee do not.]]

The story revolves around Andrew Harlan, a particularly skilled Technician, and his role in the ending of Eternity. [[hottip:Large spoilers - click to reveal:The people who blocked Eternity's access to the future centuries after the 70,000th have discovered a different form of time travel, and used it to discover that in the far future, humanity no longer exists. The reason for this is that once they finally left Earth with space travel, they found the galaxy already populated by other species, and were thus restricted to Earth. Thus enclosed, they decayed and died. To correct this, they cut off Eternity's access to their Centuries to prevent Reality Changes from affecting them. They then decide to send a woman backward in time to undo Eternity and open the galaxy to humanity. The woman chooses Harlan as the key because through her study she came to love him, and because his scenario (the breaking of the loop) is the [[ResetButton easiest way to end Eternity]].

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Eternals are comprised of several groups - Sociologists, Technicians, Life-Plotters and Computers[[note]]"Computer" in this novel has its original meaning, "person employed to do computations". Electronic devices built to do computations are called Summators or computaplexes.[[/note]] are mentioned, in addition, there are also Maintenance people. Sociologists accumulate data and analyze it for possible Reality Changes. Computers narrow down when and where the Reality Change takes place, and the Technicians pinpoint and make the Reality Changes themselves. Because of this, Technicians are highly revered, yet feared. They are also supposed to suppress all emotion because of the nature of their job, and thus rarely find love.

The start of Eternity is explained to be a [[StableTimeLoop time paradox]]. The man who "discovered" time travel in Primitive times (before Eternity) wrote a journal. In the journal, he detailed his life, [[labelnote:spoiler - click to reveal]]in which he is trained by the main character and his Computer superior and sent back in time to restart the loop. The Computer superior knows all of this, but the main character and their trainee do not.[[/labelnote]]

The story revolves around Andrew Harlan, a particularly skilled Technician, and his role in the ending of Eternity. [[labelnote:Large spoilers - click to reveal]]The people who blocked Eternity's access to the future centuries after the 70,000th have discovered a different form of time travel, and used it to discover that in the far future, humanity no longer exists. The reason for this is that once they finally left Earth with space travel, they found the galaxy already populated by other species, and were thus restricted to Earth. Thus enclosed, they decayed and died. To correct this, they cut off Eternity's access to their Centuries to prevent Reality Changes from affecting them. They then decide to send a woman backward in time to undo Eternity and open the galaxy to humanity. The woman chooses Harlan as the key because through her study she came to love him, and because his scenario (the breaking of the loop) is the [[ResetButton easiest way to end Eternity]].[[/labelnote]]

27th Jan '13 2:59:56 AM Bunnie

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24th Jun '12 5:14:23 AM FELH2

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