{"id":101723,"date":"2026-08-06T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101723"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:59:23","slug":"the-end-of-eternity-micromanaging-history-killing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/06\/the-end-of-eternity-micromanaging-history-killing-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The End of Eternity<\/em>: Micromanaging History, Killing the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OoNyRN3vC04?si=8tt-fwQjhhuaPbaU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 3 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <em>The End of Eternity<\/em> can be read as a tangent to his <em>Foundation<\/em> series, an artifact of the optimism that permeated the years immediately preceding the dawn of manned spaceflight, or as a critique of central planning and social engineering. It also has a bit more character development than is typical for Asimov&#8217;s concept-focused writing.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n04:33 Noys and Space<br \/>\n09:25 Closed Loop<br \/>\n11:14 The Superman<br \/>\n16:17 Losing the Stars<br \/>\n20:31 Ending Eternity<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And now the shameless self-promotion section: <em>Stellar Drift<\/em> is now available. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GTVXK4CN<br \/>\nAnd of course the prologue novel <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em> as well. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 3 Apr 2026 Isaac Asimov&#8217;s The End of Eternity can be read as a tangent to his Foundation series, an artifact of the optimism that permeated the years immediately preceding the dawn of manned spaceflight, or as a critique of central planning and social engineering. It also has a bit more character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[1593,1218,85],"class_list":["post-101723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-feralhistorian","tag-isaacasimov","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qsH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101724,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101723\/revisions\/101724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}