- Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction in English, American Science fiction
The world would never be the same again. First there was the razor blade that never wore out, then the everlasting light bulb, then the car that never broke down. The world's biggest industries were rapidly being squeezed out, the planet heading for economic collapse. People began to disappear—families, whole towns, vanished without a trace. Then Jay Vickers spun a child's top and found himself, literally, on another world...
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Grave, classical in form, epic and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Clifford D. Simak
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Ace Books, Avon, Edhasa
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780575122376
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Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master,[4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5] He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.
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