num_pages: 7
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..."A beautiful and moving book, showing Simak at the peak of his formidable powers." - Mike Resnick in The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction"The best book Clifford Simak has written since City... you'll be sorry if you pass it up." - Analog Science Fact &amp; Fiction"Excellent, subtle and thought provoking" - Peter F. Hamilton"This is the Old Master at his best." - Las Vegas Review Journal"A story of rare imaginative beauty." - Fort Wayne News-Sentinel"Simak has concocted a plausible, readable tale." - Norfolk Virginian Pilot"Eric Michael Summerer does a terrific job narrating this pastoral masterpiece. He portrays Simak’s characters with all the honesty, decency, and humanity that Clifford D. Simak put into them." - SFFaudio
language: English
title: Way Station
titlecomplete: Way Station
characters: Lucy Fisher, Winslowe, Mary, Enoch Wallace
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 26641
places: Wisconsin
awards: awardedAt: -189360000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Locus Award
category: All-Time Best SF Novel
publisher: Audible