5/20/2023 0 Comments Way station clifford simakIt was written in the sixties, but it's still forward-thinking even today in 2014. STORY (classic sci-fi) - Way Station is a thoroughly enjoyable book. Did Lucy actually decide to go? How did CIA gin sing guy assuage Lucy's parents? What happened with the meeting with earth's leaders and did it have any positive effect on ending the pending war drums? It was frustrating to spend that much time on a novel and come away with no further movement on the whole premise of the novel, humankind's encounter with aliens. I was most disappointed with how it ended, leaving many of the important issues unresolved. Then the repeated instances where the protagonist endlessly waxed philosophical on every situation where a decision branch was encountered. Then the repetition began where the author would continue have the protagonist over-think almost every situational encounter. And, for the first quarter of the story, I found it interesting and novel. I was intrigued with the concept of person becoming a host for wayward space alien travelers for a couple of centuries. a Edgar Allen Poe versus a Dean Koontz novel of today, I still feel that there was more wrong than right with it. Aware of comparing novel styles in the past with current works, e.g.
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