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Kevin Crane _lue_kies_lways — Enjoyed this book, not as much a Water for Elephants but it was good.

Cristina Fantini cristinafantini — I was excited to find out that Simak is a Wisconsinite as well. This book is nice and tight. Not over long and keeps you engaged, despite a writing style which seems leisurely. Here's a longer review I wrote for StarShipSofa blog: Prompted by the lads here at StarShipSofa and by the fact that Simak is a SF author who I'd never heard of from my home State of Wisconsin, and by the fortuitous happenstance of visiting a friend who had 5 or 6 Simak novels on her shelves, I decided to read Way Station. I am so glad I did! It's really a wonderful little book with lots to satisfy all types of SF fans. There are plenty of gadgets for the techie fans and there's plenty of philosophising for the fans of Soft SF. Way Station is the story of Enoch Wallace, who, in 1967 is about 120 years old. He comes to the attention of some government officials in Intelligence, who just can't seem to figure him out, but suspect that he is much more than meets the eye. They are right. He's the Gate Keeper or Station Master of an intergalactic station for travelers on long trips between member worlds. Earth is not a member and Enoch is the only person on Earth who knows about the station and indeed the extra-terrestrial world itself. While inside the station he doesn't age, which accounts for the fact that he looks 30 years old although everyone outside knows he is an American Civil War Veteran, or so the legend goes by this time. He has met many aliens over the course of the years and learned much about the universe, but there is still so much he doesn't know or understand. For almost 100 years his neighbors, few and far between as they are, have left him alone. Such is the way of life in rural South-Western Wisconsin. Now, however, a meddling government agent has stirred things up. Things seem to be coming to a head, not only in Enoch 'sown little world, but on Earth as the world appears to be heading towards war yet again, and also within the Galactic Collective itself. Enoch is very contemplative, which seems fitting for someone who spends most of his time alone. This appears to be common in Simak's writing though. Some of the themes he contemplates are: war and the futility of it; the vastnesss of the universe and of the intelligence within it; the idea of a universal life-force or God, which seems to have been proven as fact in the Galactic Collective; Earth's place in the universe and Enouch's place in the world as "Earthman" and the person who represents Earth. This last theme spoke to me. I identify with Enoch as a displaced person, someone who can't escape his heritage (Enoch's as a person of Earth, mine as an "American") but by nature of his contact with the universe boyond Earth (and mine outside the United States), he has become more than (or simply different to?) an Earthman. This book is brief - probably what would be considered a novella these days - but it is dense. Full of ideas and imagination, dense but imminently readable. Simak wraps things up admirably at the end, weaving the many seemingly random threads of narrative and ideas into a beautiful tapestry.