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You are looking at a collection of short fiction by the contemporary Scottish science fiction author of the novels Achelerando and Singularity Sky. The small volume of the book actually shelters the whole range of styles and ideas with which the author has been working fruitfully in recent years. Here you can find alternative post-apocalyptic faces of the Earth, where the Cold War continues in the setting of Lovecraftian nightmares or the two-dimensional geography of Earth 2.0 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and short-range fiction with its climate change that is plaguing Edinburgh's bullies, the dangers of government regulation of cable networks, and even a "scientific article" about space spam. The most important piece, which is the title of the entire collection, is an homage to Asimov's The End of Eternity. It is a story about attempts to regulate the history of civilisation for its benefit, and as a result, the brutal exploitation and struggle against those who, while forbidding humanity to look towards distant stars, ruthlessly manipulate the lives of people and the entire solar system. "Palimpsest is a story of truly geological proportions, unfolding literally from the beginning of the world to its very end.