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City at the End of Time while others felt that the characters were underdeveloped and the story was difficult to follow. "New Scientist" described the first half of the book as "a gripping, original tale", but complained that in the second half Bear over-complicates the story with "too many ideas, images, mythologies and distractions". "City at the End of Time" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2009. "City at the End of Time" is about the Kalpa, the last city on Earth, one hundred trillion years in the future. The novel's backstory describes