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Title: Time Is the Simplest Thing by Clifford D. Simak ISBN: 0-8439-0480-1 Publisher: Tower & Leisure Sales Co Pub. Date: July, 1977 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simple things are sometimes the best
Comment: This was my first Simak novel that I have read, and I am very impressed. Originally copyrighted in 1961 it gives an interesting look into telekinetics, or as Simak refers to it in this novel paranormal kinetics.
In the future man has given up on space travel in the physical sense, and a company by the name of Fishhook recruits people with paranormal kinetics to take over where science left off--space travel by using the mind. Sheppard Blaine is one of Fishhook's top people for exploring alien worlds, until he trades minds with an alien and becomes a threat to the monopoly that Fishhook has created. Sheppard Blaine is no longer an ordinary man who traveled the stars, he is now something greater, and he will use everything he can to help save the future of humanity from being destroyed by ignorance and hate.
This story will keep you dialed in for hours; you will not want to put it down. Initially, the story is a little dry but the tempo picks up and some suprises are thrown in. You start to realize that this novel is comparable to "The Matrix" in the sense that it is one man, Blaine, who is learning to save humanity and in the end he no longer fears death but confronts it head on to save his own kind from death.
Even though this is a scifi story, Simak doesn't go overboard with his creative genius. He keeps Blaine 'real' in the sense that he gives Blaine some really neat mental abilities but doesn't have him becoming omniscent or unstopable. Also, he doesn't dwell on descriptions of technology, in fact, in this story there is really not that much technology brough into play--it's all about what humans are capable of doing without the aide of machinery.
I look forward to finding more stories from this writer, unfortunately there are not many in print these days. He is evidently one of the esoteric writers who has not been discovered, but hopefully, his works will catch the eye of someone high up who can bring him out into the open for the masses.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another great one by Simak
Comment: This is a typically good Simak book; the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that he has many that are better. The "parapsychological" concept is also explored in his story "A Choice of Gods".
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Simak book with Twilight Zone touches.
Comment: A good adventure book in Simak's vein with beautiful bucolic landscapes,Twilight Zone touches, religion and metaphysics,an enjoyable book but not Simak's masterpiece.
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Title: Way Station (SF Collector's Edition) by Clifford D. Simak ISBN: 0575071389 Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Pub. Date: 19 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Choice of Gods by Clifford D. Simak ISBN: 999740856X Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1972 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Ring Around the Sun (Masters of Science Fiction) by Clifford D. Simak ISBN: 0881848522 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak ISBN: 0881848972 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: City by Clifford D. Simak ISBN: 0441106277 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $2.75 |
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