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Time whirls endlessly in an infinite stream around Man. In an attempt to escape war-ravaged earth, he launches himself into space. Robots inherit an infertile planet peopled with mutants. Finally, a superior intelligence from beyond space, takes over the dying earth.
Brian Aldiss says of these eleven stories: "they are all slices off the enormous carcase of the futurÄ™, arranged chronologically from a datÄ™ a century or two ahead, right up to the end of the galaxy".
"Anyone who likes to see an intelligent imagination weave people and ideas together and finish the reśult with craftsmanship, should enjoy The Canopy of Time'." "Devilishly clever and compulsive." Kenneth allsop,
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