- American Science fiction
It looked like a big black box-perhaps fifty feet high, two hundred long. And it had settled squarely on forestry student Jerry Conklin's car, parked next to a fishing stream outside Lone Pine, Minnesota.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Clifford D. Simak
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- DEL REY 1979/80, Del Rey Books : Ballantine, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780283987182
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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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