This is a story about good people taking on literally world-changing problems, in a quiet, pastoral setting. Enoch, Ulysses, and Enoch's few human friends, the mailman Winslowe, the deaf-mute neighbor girl Lucy Fisher, and a new arrival in his life, CIA agent Claude Lewis, have some very knotty problems to work through in very little time. That description may make it seem strange that this is a very gentle book, quietly moving rather than brimming with action and excitement. A century later, he's still running it, and hasn't aged a day.Īnd stresses are appearing in galactic civilization, even as Earth appears to be sliding toward a third and more terrible world war. Ulysses-the name Enoch gives him, suitable to the human tongue-is an emissary from Galactic Central, here to recruit Enoch to operate a way station for galactic travelers. Then, after some grieving and meditation on what the future might hold, he receives a most unusual visitor-a traveler from further away than he could have imagined. Enoch Wallace returned to his family's farm after the Civil War, and farmed it with his father until a freak accident left him alone on it.
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