Way Station
Clifford D. Simak · 1963
An immortal man has quietly maintained an alien transit station in his Wisconsin farmhouse since the Civil War. Simak's pastoral SF, humane and gentle, suffused with rural American longing, is the most emotionally quiet novel ever to win the Hugo Award.
The case against
Simak's gentleness shades into inertia. Enoch sits in his farmhouse for most of the book, receiving aliens and ruminations, while the galactic crisis gets resolved by a mislaid holy Talisman and a deaf girl who is less a character than a vessel of innocence. Cold War anxieties date it to the month. The pace is a long Wisconsin afternoon, which is either the charm or the problem.
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