by Clifford D. Simak
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...
Veteran of the US civil war is approached by extraterrestrials to run station for interstellar transit line on Earth.At times this reads like the inversion of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, as the protagonist never leaves earth to explore, but rather explores the weird alien stuff installed on earth...
The first science fiction book I have ever read was [b:All Flesh Is Grass|876268|All Flesh is Grass|Clifford D. Simak|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1233845467s/876268.jpg|2490608] by Clifford D. Simak. I was so astonished and entertained that I immediately looked for more sf to read and to this day ...
I'd give this 3.5 stars, rounding up to 4. I used to love golden age sci-fi, but for me, most of it just doesn't hold up today. This was my first Simak novel. I enjoyed the writing and the story, and I can understand why it was a Hugo winner -- in 1964. I wonder how much this novel influenced the wr...
Many readers consider Way Station to be Simak's best book. After all, it beat the much more popular Dune in the Hugo awards for 1964. While I prefer City, I still think Way Station is a marvelous merging of science fiction and subtlety. Again, the setting is Simak's much beloved rural Wisconsin. Eno...
A Civil War veteran is recruited by an alien to man a hidden interstellar transportation station on Earth. As long as he stays inside his invulnerable way station he will never age and can enjoy the company of passing alien travelers and the gifts they bring, but he refuses to give up on humanity a...
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