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Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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 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 Fiction Classic Fantasy

Critic Reviews

  • Hugo Award, Best Novel, 1964
  • All-Time Best Science Fiction Novels (Locus Magazine)
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Way station is a beautiful & unique story, offering a refreshingly positive take on what it means to be human.

Timeless & wholesome science fiction

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The characters are fairly thin but the ideas in the story hold it together. I can see why it won the Hugo.

Rating is for the ideas

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Growing up I was introduced to science fiction literature via such greats as Asimov, Clarke and Simak, to name only a few. Way Station is an old favourite; a novel that I have read a number of times. This audio version is superb. The narrator’s voice and pacing makes it so easy to listen to a great story.

An old favourite

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