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Way Station

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Enoch Wallace survived the carnage of Gettysburg and lived through the rest of the Civil War to make it home to his parents' farm in south-west Wisconsin.

But his mother was already dead and his father soon joined her in the tiny family cemetery.

It was then that Enoch met the being he called Ulysses and the farm became a way station for space travellers.

Now, nearly a hundred years later, the US government is taking an interest in the seemingly immortal Enoch, and the Galactic Council, which set up the way station is threatening to tear itself apart.

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Product Details
Gollancz
0575071389 / 9780575071384
Paperback
813.54
19/10/2000
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
188p.
22 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963; London: Gollancz, 1964.
'Its warmth, imaginative detail and finely rendered bucolic scenes make this probably [Simak's] best novel' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel The best-known and finest example of the pastoral science fiction at which Simak excelled 'This slow, meditative story has considerable charm. The rural setting is depicted with genuine feeling, and the theme of universal harmony is given an immediacy' Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
'Its warmth, imaginative detail and finely rendered bucolic scenes make this probably [Simak's] best novel' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel The best-known and finest example of the pastoral science fiction at which Simak excelled 'This slow, meditative story has considerable charm. The rural setting is depicted with genuine feeling, and the theme of universal harmony is given an immediacy' Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels FL Science fiction