The World at the End of Time

The World at the End of Time is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl that describes the history of mankind in a distant future at the time of proton decay .

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The novel is set in a distant future: Wan-To is the oldest and most powerful intelligence being in the universe, which comes close to a god - he can create stars and let them perish at will, and human affairs do not affect him in the least.

But when he creates "children" from his own essence for diversion, they try to kill him and a war breaks out, in the course of which entire solar systems are destroyed; some are thrown away by Wan-To at the speed of light and are subject to time dilation .

Viktor Sorricaine is one of the last people to live in the city of Newmanhome, which lies on a planet whose solar system reaches the age of proton decay through time dilation.

Here he meets Wan-To, who desperately had to witness the death of all the stars and now wants to seize the arriving star, even if that could mean the end of the last people.

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The World at the End of Time. Del Rey / Ballantine, New York 1990, ISBN 0-345-37197-6 , 393 pp.

Several new editions appeared from October 1990. This work has not yet been translated into German, only into Italian, Bulgarian and Czech. In 1991 it came in 18th place in the Best SF Novel category of the Locus Award .

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The World at the End of Time ISFDB Title Record in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Individual evidence

^ "The World at the End of Time." Retrieved November 13, 2014.
^ "The World at the End of Time." Goodreads. Accessed November 13, 2014.

[1] "The World at the End of Time." Retrieved November 13, 2014.

[2] "The World at the End of Time." Goodreads. Accessed November 13, 2014.