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Summary: Awesome tale, man suddenly alone but still finds friendship
Review: After a thousand years in space Carter finds himself to be the sole surving member of his crew. When his ship lands millions of light years away from earth, he meets a creature that knew Shakespeare. This was a very well written book.
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Summary: Alone on a distant world.
Review: Imagine landing on a strange deserted planet then encountering a series of other beings whom are as marooned as you. The title refers to one of the characters not the Bard himself. On the psychedelic edge of sci fi.
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Summary: Alone on a distant world.
Review: Imagine landing on a strange deserted planet then encountering a series of other beings whom are as marooned as you. The title refers to one of the characters not the Bard himself. On the psychedelic edge of sci fi.
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Summary: Not as good as Simak's other books
Review: This is very run-of-the-mill as far as a Simak book goes. A human and his robot are marooned on a planet with an alien called Carnivore. There's a kind of tunnel that allows people to be transported from planet to planet, and Carnivore has arrived on this planet by way of that tunnel. Unfortunately, this particular stop of the tunnel is only one way - the way off the planet is closed because the tunnel seems to be broken on this end. Nothing much happens in this book besides the characters doing a little exploring, and trying to figure out how to get the tunnel working again. They also try to figure out the mystery of a pond that's not quite a pond, a creature frozen in time, a mysterious hill near the pond, and the reason why some sort of intelligence is 'freezing' all of their minds once a day in something they call the 'God-hour'. All of this becomes sort of a mish-mash of concepts that hints at coming together at the end of the book, to explain what's going on with this planet. However, the ending is wrapped up very quickly, and isn't that satisfying. This book is probably worth the read if you're a die-hard Simak fan like me, but for anyone else, it's not all that interesting.
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Summary: Not as good as Simak's other books
Review: This is very run-of-the-mill as far as a Simak book goes. A human and his robot are marooned on a planet with an alien called Carnivore. There's a kind of tunnel that allows people to be transported from planet to planet, and Carnivore has arrived on this planet by way of that tunnel. Unfortunately, this particular stop of the tunnel is only one way - the way off the planet is closed because the tunnel seems to be broken on this end. Nothing much happens in this book besides the characters doing a little exploring, and trying to figure out how to get the tunnel working again. They also try to figure out the mystery of a pond that's not quite a pond, a creature frozen in time, a mysterious hill near the pond, and the reason why some sort of intelligence is 'freezing' all of their minds once a day in something they call the 'God-hour'. All of this becomes sort of a mish-mash of concepts that hints at coming together at the end of the book, to explain what's going on with this planet. However, the ending is wrapped up very quickly, and isn't that satisfying. This book is probably worth the read if you're a die-hard Simak fan like me, but for anyone else, it's not all that interesting.
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