anakin skywalker and obiwan kenobi find themselves caught on a hostile planet and facing their most ruthless enemy yet a master of disguise and a student of sith lore named granta omega there is a secret passage through timeand it leads all the way to the end of eternity but the journey has a terrible cost it alters not only the future but the present in which we livea century after the publication of h g wells immortal the time machine stephen baxter todays most acclaimed new hard sf author and the acknowledged clarke returns to the distant conflict between the eloi and the morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion and a radical departure based on the astonishing new understandings of quantum physics