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Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors--and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age--a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch's eyes to humanity's impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that "to read science-fiction is to read Simak." … (lisätietoja)
Amerikan sisällissodasta ei ole pitkä matka tähtiin. Maailman yksinäisin mies Enoch Wallace tietää sen. Hän hoitaa kotonaan galaktista väliasemaa, jonka kautta tähtien muukalaiset kulkevat käsittämättömillä retkillään. Nämä oudot vierailijat ovatkin Enochille tutumpia kuin lähinaapurit. Lähes kuolematon Enoch Wallace tietää melkein kaiken ja siksi hän haluaa auttaa Maata pääsemään avaruuden veljeskunnan jäseneksi. Kaikki ei suju suunnitelmien mukaan ja asetelma kääntyy päälaelleen. Tapahtumien vauhti yllättää satavuotiaan asemanhoitajankin. Väliasema on amerikkalaisen tieteiskirjallisuuden juhlitun ja palkitun veteraanin Clifford Donald Simakin (s.1904) ensimmäinen suomeksi julkaistu romaani. Väliasema on voittanut Hugo-palkinnon parhaana tieteisromaanina. Kansi: Kellyn Freas. (Takakansi)
Taas yksi niitä "vanhoja hyviä" scifejä. Alku oli yhtä lupaava kuin muistelinkin mutta sitten juttu puuroutui ja loppua kohti muuttui jopa tylsäksi. Kirjan ideahan on aivan loistava. Alkuperäiset tähdet olikin 4 mutta lukemisen jälkeen muutin 2,5:ksi. Pettymys. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The noise was ended now.
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries.
Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?
...the Earth was now on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveling star to star. An inn...a stopping place, a galactic crossroads.
...on the other side of the room stood the intricate mass of machinery, reaching well up into the open second storey, that wafted passengers through the space from star to star.
On the fireplace mantel and strewn on shelf and table were articles and artifacts that had no earthly origin and some no earthly names - the steady accumulation through the years of the gifts from friendly travelers. Some of them were functional and others were to look at only...
...there was nothing that could touch it. Even should he be forced some day to remain within its walls, the station...would stand against all of mankind's watching, all of mankind's prying. They could not chip it and they could not gouge it and they could not break it down. For it could survive anything except a thermonuclear explosion - and maybe even that.
It would be hard to shut the door... never to feel the sun or wind again, to never know the smell of the changing seasons as they came across the Earth...He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man. (p.98-9)
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors--and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age--a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch's eyes to humanity's impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that "to read science-fiction is to read Simak."
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Väliasema on amerikkalaisen tieteiskirjallisuuden juhlitun ja palkitun veteraanin Clifford Donald Simakin (s.1904) ensimmäinen suomeksi julkaistu romaani. Väliasema on voittanut Hugo-palkinnon parhaana tieteisromaanina. Kansi: Kellyn Freas. (Takakansi)