‘The End of Eternity’ by Isaac Asimov and the Manifest Destiny of America

John Gast, American Progress, 1872

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was one of the central writers of the formative period of science fiction and among the very first to highlight the political and societal importance of the genre. The key works in Asimov’s oeuvre were the Robot and Foundation series published in the Astounding Science-Fiction magazine in the 1940’s and the 1950’s. In these Asimov dealt…