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Nature 454, 696-697 (7 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/454696b; Published online 6 August 2008

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Visions of our far future

Jon Turney1

BOOK REVIEWEDYear Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

Edited by Damien Broderick Atlas: 2008. 330 pp. $40.00, £20.35

The Victorians' discovery of deep geological time was unsettling. Suddenly, human history was an afterthought, a link between an unthinkably long past and a newly imaginable future.