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Revision as of 02:24, 14 September 2006 by Nareek (talk | contribs) (Adding cat)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Great Work of Time is a novella by John Crowley. A science fiction story involving time travel, it concerns a secret society created by the will of Cecil Rhodes to preserve and expand the British Empire.
The title comes from Andrew Marvell's poem about Oliver Cromwell, who, Marvell said,
- Could by industrious valour climb
- To ruin the great work of Time,
- And cast the kingdoms old
- Into another mould.
Originally published in Crowley's 1989 collection Novelty, Great Work of Time was also published on its own in a Bantam paperback edition in 1991. It is now available as part of the omnibus volume Novelties and Souvenirs.
It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1990.
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