- Fiction, Life on other planets, Telepathy, American Science fiction
Space travel has been abandoned in the twenty-second century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and inconvenient—and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the monopoly on interstellar exploration for commercial gain.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Clifford D. Simak
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Magnum
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780413369505
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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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