The major themes here are ones that challenge us and are hard to cope with. Particularly the theme of inevitability. It is in the back of all of our minds and we condition ourselves to accept it, but it is always there. Asimov solves the inevitability of resource degradation by expansion and the inevitability of death by immortality, but in the end there are both, in fact, inevitable. When all seems lost and the bleakness of our existence is brought into scope, he presents the cyclic nature of time. A novel approach to a problem that plagues the core of our being. This is where the story really jumped from good to amazing for me. I'm still stuck on it.
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The major themes here are ones that challenge us and are hard to cope with. Particularly the theme of inevitability. It is in the back of all of our minds and we condition ourselves to accept it, but it is always there. Asimov solves the inevitability of resource degradation by expansion and the inevitability of death by immortality, but in the end there are both, in fact, inevitable. When all seems lost and the bleakness of our existence is brought into scope, he presents the cyclic nature of time. A novel approach to a problem that plagues the core of our being. This is where the story really jumped from good to amazing for me. I'm still stuck on it.