The Word (novel) The Word (novel) The Word is a 1972 mystery thriller novel by Irving Wallace, which explores the origin of the New Testament of the Bible. The plot of the novel is based around the discovery within Roman ruins of a new gospel written by Jesus' younger brother, James in the first century. In the gospel, many facts of Jesus' life, including the years not mentioned in the Bible, are revealed not to be as factual as they were once thought to be. Steven Randall, a divorced public relations executive running his own company in New York City, is the man
The End of Eternity to be removed from reality. There are also no aliens who could compete with humans: in "Blind Alley", the aliens' predicament is rather like what will overtake humanity if "Eternity" is not prevented. The original, unpublished "End of Eternity" is clearly a different future from that of the "Foundation", but Asimov says in his story-postscript that he had some idea of a bridge in the published version. Asimov placed a hint in "Foundation's Edge", many years later, that the Eternals might have been responsible for the all-human galaxy and the development of humanity on Earth of the "Foundation" Series, but