![]() ![]() I've been reading science fiction a very long time - something like 48 years if my math is right - and one of my favorite authors back in the day was Clifford D. This is a story about good people taking on literally world-changing problems, in a quiet, pastoral setting. Enoch, Ulysses, and Enoch's few human friends, the mailman Winslowe, the deaf-mute neighbor girl Lucy Fisher, and a new arrival in his life, CIA agent Claude Lewis, have some very knotty problems to work through in very little time. ![]() That description may make it seem strange that this is a very gentle book, quietly moving rather than brimming with action and excitement. A century later, he's still running it, and hasn't aged a day.Īnd stresses are appearing in galactic civilization, even as Earth appears to be sliding toward a third and more terrible world war. Ulysses-the name Enoch gives him, suitable to the human tongue-is an emissary from Galactic Central, here to recruit Enoch to operate a way station for galactic travelers. ![]() Then, after some grieving and meditation on what the future might hold, he receives a most unusual visitor-a traveler from further away than he could have imagined. ![]() Enoch Wallace returned to his family's farm after the Civil War, and farmed it with his father until a freak accident left him alone on it. ![]()
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