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Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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About this listen

 In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.

More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy.

BONUS AUDIO: Way Station includes an exclusive introduction by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Mike Resnick.

©1963 Clifford D. Simak (P)2008 Audible, Inc. Science Fiction Classic Fantasy

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Critic reviews

  • Hugo Award, Best Novel, 1964
  • All-Time Best Science Fiction Novels (Locus Magazine)
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A lyricism and an elegiac quality rare if not unique in SF - Way Station is lifted beyond the genre by the writing. It is has beautiful natural description and poetic ambiguity, woven into fine straightforward storytelling, and both detailed and - ultimately - soaring ideas.
The audiobook is well read with a voice suited particularly to the main character.
Recommended.

Rare in the genre

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Way Station was written in the early sixties but it still knocks most of the mil-scifi and dark fantasy junk out of the park.

Why don't they write like this any more

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I have enjoyed all the Clifford D Simak stories I have read so far, and found this one to be particularly enjoyable. I liked the picture it painted of the life whole scenario and of the various alien and human characters involved.

Enjoyable and engaging story

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what can I say other than this is way- way-waystaion ahead of its time.
A perfect read between military sci-fi and zombie apocalypse ....
I highly recommend DUSTYS DIARY...

superb...

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I listened to this 62 years after it was written, and it is fresh as if it was written last year. Simak has always been a favourite author of mine but for some reason, I never got around to this. It is a classic. Read it and enjoy thought provoking SF written by the Grand Master. I miss Clifford, his writing helped shape me as a human in early life. His protagonists are warm and knowledgeable.
The story itself is one of intrigue. The plot just gets better and better. I did not expect the ending and I loved the author for that. The amount of generic pap and shovelware that passes for SF is not good but my faith was restored by listening to this.

Excellent.

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