- Fiction in English, Science Fiction, androids, robots
It is the future and Mankind has spread to the stars like seeds before the wind. One star system, though, shrouded in mystery, has defied Man's every attempt to visit it. Every expedition to 61 Cygni has found its path inexplicably deflected and has been forced to return home in frustration.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Clifford D. Simak
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Ace Books, Eyre Methuen in association with Methuen Paperbacks
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780441810031
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“Der Mann kam aus dem Zwielicht, während noch der letzte Tagesschimmer am westlichen Horizont zu sehen war.”
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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