- Hugo Award Winner, American Science fiction, Artificial intelligence, Fiction
One of 3 novels by early Hugo winner Mark Clifton, exploring ideas re closed vs. open mind, individual vs. group thinking
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Classical in form, grave, cool and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Mark Clifton, Frank Riley
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Donning, Doubleday, Gnome Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780898651652
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First sentence
“Nicht weit vor ihm, in der Dritten Straße, ragte die verrußte Bahnhofsfassade der Southern Pacific schemenhaft in den diesigen Januarhimmel San Franciscos.”
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