One of the things I’ve always loved about science fiction is the titles. That’s probably about as trite as judging a book by its cover, but, in my defense, science fiction somehow always manages to produce the most poetic and romantic of statements about the wonders of time and space. Star Trek is particularly good at this, its episode titles often ranging from the poetic, such as “The World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky,” to the literary and philosophical, such as “Is there In Truth No Beauty?” One of my favorites has always been “City on the Edge of Forever.” Long before I watched Star Trek in its campy glory, that title made me want to; it set me dreaming and imagining an ethereal city in the clouds, rather like Cloud City in Star Wars, perched precariously on the edge of eternity and describing a story equally breathtaking..

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