As if it weren’t weird enough that this would make the man around 130 years old (if not older), he doesn’t seem to have aged a day since 1865. Government officials have become aware of a man in rural Wisconsin who seems to have been born in the 1800s, and who was a soldier in the Civil War. So, the book! Way Station is set in the 1960s, when tensions between the US and the USSR are high. I’m very tempted to bump up my 4.5 stars to a full five. I just need to buy my own hard copy.)Īnyway, this book was just lovely. (I then stupidly returned the book, and because I’m maxed out at my ten book limit right now, can’t get at those highlights. I had the Kindle version (currently free on Kindle Unlimited!) and I highlighted just a bunch of beautiful shit. But this book feels almost timeless, and though I don’t usually care about the prose of a book as much as I do its ability to make me care for its characters and what happens to them, and it’s ability to put a well-structured story arc on the page, this book was absolutely beautifully written in parts. A lot of it is very dated, or rooted in the time period it was written in, or focuses on ideas and themes that aren’t as interesting to me as more modern sci-fi. “Golden Age Sci-Fi” isn’t always something that personally resonates with me. I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed this book.
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