After Act I, I was asking myself the same question that Doug had asked when he discovered the kind of life that they were living, "And you want to change all of this? It's utopia!" Here they were living in a land where nothing grows older, nothing's worn out, everything stays the same. How can this be such a bad thing? I guess that it was in the concluding act, when it was explained by E.G. Marshall how this kind of life disallows one from being able to look forward to new things, made me realize that maybe it wasn't such a great thing afterall.

Still, I liked the story very much. I've always had a keen interest in sci-fi when it explores the time-space continuum thingy. And this one does so quite nicely and that's why I gave it a 4 out of 5 rating.

In true fashion (as per the rules of this board), I'm writing this without having read other posters comments, but I'm betting that someone has already mentioned how this story is eerily similar to something taken right out of the Twilight Zone.