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Violence
Barely any
Civil War flashback and some minor conflict; very light
Language
None
Period and clean language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of solitude, responsibility, and humanity's place in a much larger universe
What this book is about
Enoch Wallace survived Gettysburg in 1863 and has been the keeper of a galactic waystation ever since — staying young while maintaining an interstellar transit point in his Wisconsin farmhouse. Hugo Award winner. Simak's quiet masterpiece is science fiction's most gentle epic — humane, nostalgic, and quietly visionary.
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