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• kwhitefoot · Sep 25, 2017 · Recommends

  …science fiction doesn't need a lot of special effects. There are almost uncountably many stories that could be transferred to television or film at no more cost than any other drama. Take Clifford Simak's Way Station for instance, most of Ray Bradbury's stories, J. G. Ballard, and dozens or hundreds more. Even stories with a grand idea and scope like Clarke and Baxter's Light of Other Days hardly need much in the…

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• avani · Sep 22, 2019 · Recommends

  You need to read Clifford Simak's "The Way Station"

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• brudgers · May 9, 2011 · Recommends

  …Hugo Award Novels and recommend Roger Zelazny's This Immortal which is good enough to have shared the award with Dune in 1965. Lord of Light is also a great read and won a Hugo in 1968. Clifford Simak's Way Station, Phillip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, and Walter Miller's Canticle for Leibowitz are other great Hugo novels from the early 1960's that tend to be overshadowed by more famous authors from that period…

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• MattPalmer1086 · Feb 19, 2022 · Recommends

  I can't pick a favourite so I'll just list some books I love that might not be as well known as some others here. * Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon * Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak * The Gap (series), by Stephen Donaldson * The Golden Apples of the Sun, by Ray Bradbury * Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson

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• MattPalmer1086 · Sep 4, 2022 · Recommends

  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it always makes me smile. The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson. It's grimly compelling, very dark characters. Way Station by Clifford Simak, an odd one maybe but I always liked it.

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