Today was the last super moon of 2022. How can that be? Didn’t the year just start a few days ago? It seems to go by so quickly and with little to show for it. Lately, my time has been spent reading. I feel like a lot of the classics are set aside because the writing styles of the past are not always easy for the modern reader. The pacing was different. The science might be outdated. Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” It seems reasonable that any aspiring writer should work hard to discover which shoulders are available for their best vantage point.

I recently revisited Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity. At first, I caught myself questioning the pacing, the character development and other elements of the story. Honestly, I feel like a complete jerk. I couldn’t even begin to climb as high as those shoulders. The paradoxes and theories he played with to construct the story are the reason I fell in love with science fiction to begin with. If you haven’t read it and you are interested in time travel theory, you might find it worth your while. There are so many great modern science fiction authors, but let’s not forget the builders of this genre.