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Having just returned to Earth from an intergalactic research mission, Professor Peter Maxwell, specialist in Supernatural Phenomena, finds himself in most desperate straits.
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Classical in form, plot-driven, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Clifford D. Simak
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Berkley, Putnam, DENOEL
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780881848977
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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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