Пересадочная станция
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9785699637638
Publish date: May 2013
Publisher: Эксмо
Pages no: 288
Edition language: Russian
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Space,
Speculative Fiction,
Aliens,
Western
Like a lot of books, the story begins with an interesting principle, that aliens are using Earth as a kind of interstellar "airport" and one man, a civil war survivor has been chosen to oversee their facility. He only ages when outside the facility the aliens have built inside his old farmhouse. The...
War and violence, racial tolerance, loneliness. All are dealt with in this book but not in the way you might think. There are no raging battles with aliens, just one lone man running a way station for alien travelers.Enoch Wallace was recruited shortly after the Civil War over a hundred years ago to...
I've been reading this book on and off for several years (first time I read it in Portuguese...). Once in a while I get the urge to pick it up again. It happened again... lolStorytelling, movie making, painting are all art forms. There is no right or wrong way to make art. There's no inherently pro...
A good book. It has a quiet stillness and most of the book is the main character sitting around or walking in the Wisconsin countryside remembering his past and contemplating humanity, the nature of the universe and his present situation. That stuff is incredibly well done and gives the book its p...
Four paragraphs:"And there she sat, with the wild red and gold of the butterfly poised upon her finger, with the sense of alertness and expectancy and, perhaps, accomplishment shining on her face. She was alive, thought Enoch, as no other thing he knew had ever been alive. The butterfly spread its w...
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