num_pages: 210
description: Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...
language: English
title: Way Station
titlecomplete: Way Station
characters: Winslowe, Enoch Wallace, Lucy Fisher, Mary
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Aliens, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction, Hugo Awards
ratings_count: 26628
places: Wisconsin
awards: awardedAt: -189360000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Locus Award
category: All-Time Best SF Novel
publisher: Collier Books