The Triumph of Time is also known as A Clash of Cymbals.
In three years' time the two universes were doomed to inevitable, catastrophic collision! When the scientists of the wandering planet, journeying through inter-galactic space, heard the sound of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of nothing, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation. They had lifted the curtain and caught an instant's glimpse of the unknowable. But to have looked it full in the face could have been no more fatal. For later, much later, they were to learn that they had also uncovered mankind's Day of Judgment!
James Benjamin Blish (1921–1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen name William Atheling Jr. Picture: Gravestone of James Blish, Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, England.
