Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.

More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...

I really hope this stays up this time!!!!!

So do I! I'm in for this one!

This one is really good. I read it a few years ago and it made me seek out more by the author.

Chad wrote: "This one is really good. I read it a few years ago and it made me seek out more by the author."

I agree -- great book!

City was great. I'm looking forward to this one.

Sounds interesting! I found it on Hoopla so I’ll ck it out.

I'm about fifty pages in. It's a really interesting idea.

Those Vegans are nuts. (view spoiler)[One of their people died on your planet. "Just do whatever you usually do. Keep all his stuff. Oh yeah, and guard the body FOREVER!" (hide spoiler)]

I really enjoyed this. I liked City a lot too so I should read more by Simak.

Way Station by C. Simak

by Clifford D. Simak

Review contains NO spoilers


I’ve not read much sci-fi because I never saw the value in it. Now, after years avoiding it I met Ursula LeGuin. She made sense in my opininon. Since then I’m more open to this genre. It took a woman to change my mind! That is a major leap for me! As I look back on my month’s reading…hours, and hours immersed in a Victorian woman’s (Hester) world…did it make me think more deeply? NO. But this book did. So three cheers for sci-fi and I hope more people give it a chance and join #SciFiMonth2024 in November..and not only read novellas.

I've finally started this one and am really enjoying it so far.

Nancy wrote: "I’ve not read much sci-fi because I never saw the value in it. Now, after years avoiding it I met Ursula LeGuin. She made sense in my opininon. Since then I’m more open to this genre. It took a woman to change my mind! That is a major leap for me! As I look back on my month’s reading…hours, and hours immersed in a Victorian woman’s (Hester) world…did it make me think more deeply? NO. But this book did. So three cheers for sci-fi and I hope more people give it a chance and join #SciFiMonth2024 in November..and not only read novellas."
Exactly. Sci-fi makes you think.

What Ursula K LeGuin have you read? We read The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World Is Forest last year but you can support or suggest some others in the nominations thread.

I've just finished the book and loved it! I had an inkling about Lucy so I think the ending of the book was terrific, and the rest of the book was good too.

Rosemarie wrote: "I've just finished the book and loved it! I had an inkling about Lucy so I think the ending of the book was terrific, and the rest of the book was good too."

I was impressed by Simak. He showed this sceptic thatt SciFi can be entertaining.

Rosemarie wrote: "I've just finished the book and loved it! I had an inkling about Lucy so I think the ending of the book was terrific, and the rest of the book was good too."

Yeah, (view spoiler)[When he said they needed a new keeper for the talisman I knew it would be her.

I also thought the U.S. Government was weirdly cooperative. (hide spoiler)]

Book Nerd wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I’ve not read much sci-fi because I never saw the value in it. Now, after years avoiding it I met Ursula LeGuin. She made sense in my opininon. Since then I’m more open to this genre...."
I've read:

The Lathe of Heaven
her novella Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
The Left had of Darkness 
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

I love Ursula K. Le Guin, Nancy. Science Fiction can be much more than entertaining. It can be very thought provoking. Read on, read on!

Nancy wrote: "I've read:

The Lathe of Heaven
her novella Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
The Left had of Darkness
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia"
Of those I've only read The Left Hand of Darkness but I want to read all the Hannish series eventually.
Suggest anything you want to read in the nominations thread.