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Summary: Good Simak book with Twilight Zone touches.
Review: 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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Summary: Good Simak book with Twilight Zone touches.
Review: 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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Summary: Not quite up to Alfred Bester level, but heading that way.
Review: Fishhook, an organisation which 'searches' the galaxy for marketable product using the abilities of the parapsychologically talented (known as parries) [physical exploration of space having been proved utterly impractical] has a small problem. One of its operatives, Shepherd Blaine, may not have returned from his last 'trip' quite human. Shepherd Blaine has a similar small problem, he may no longer be quite human, and he knows that Fishhook have a policy on what do to do when that happens. The parry population of America outside Fishhook, also has a small problem, everyone else would much prefer that they didn't exist, and may be gearing up to ensure that they don't. 'Time Is The Simplest Thing' is what you get at the intersection of these three problems Sadly out of print, but if you ever see a copy going begging snaffle it up. This review refers to the dilapated paperback copy I grew up with in my parents house (-;
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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITE OF SIMAK's WORK
Review: Highly recommend this one. A very good bit of SiFi writing here. Read this one years ago and recently "Rediscovered" it in a long lost book shelf in my office. Actually, there is quite a lot of wit in this work, the story runs well and Simak has given us his uaual great character developement. Again, recommend his one highly, if you can find it.
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Summary: Suspenseful Simak
Review: I've read almost every book by Simak that I can get my hands on and this is one of the best. It is unusually focused for one of his novels (there's not that much divergent strangeness for the reader to accomodate compared to, say, the Goblin Reservation), but it has a tangible mood/feel that sucked me in and made me finish it in an afternoon. Plus, it is short. Short books are good things. Unusually enough, I think it has a similar feel to much of what has been written in X-men titles over the years, with the focus being on anti-paranormal hysteria among the public.
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Summary: Rogue telepath trying to escape those in charge.
Review: Mankind has been restricted to Earth by the radiations and hazards of space. To explore space telepaths link their minds to probes which can survive space. One telepath linked to a probe encounters an alien which becomes a part of him. He then escapes to avoid the authorities which seek to stop him from possibily spreading a possible alien menace
which could threaten Earth.
Note: I haven't seen this book since 1974
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Summary: Another great one by Simak
Review: 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".
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Summary: Another great one by Simak
Review: 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".
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Summary: Another great one by Simak
Review: 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".
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Summary: Simple things are sometimes the best
Review: 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.
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