- American Science fiction
Two reporters looking for a story in the outer reaches of the Solar System come upon a derelict spaceship. Inside, they find the only inhabitant, a beautiful young woman who has been imprisoned for a thousand years in suspended animation, suspended but aware for the whole time. Together they set off on a grand adventure across the vastness of space and time in a search for a race known as the Cosmic Engineers on a mission to save the universe.
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Epic, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Clifford D. Simak
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Paperback Library, Mandarin, Resurrected Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780727812087
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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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