10-23-2007, 09:26 AM
YETI -
Actually you are thinking of the novel Way Station by Clifford Simak. It was out of print, as was all his work except City, but has been recently reprinted in hardcover by Old Earth Books. (There is also a project by Darkside Press to print all his short stories, but it seems to have stalled after volume two.) He's one of my favorite authors, and I would recommend both of the above and the various short story collections.
I have a copy if you'd like to borrow it, or it shouldn't be hard to find a used PB copy for a couple of dollars.
Both Simak and Wellman sometimes used a kind of a down-home style and mountain setting. But while Simak used that setting for SF, Wellman seems to have written mostly horror. I knew Wellman's name, but when I looked him up on the Contento index, I couldn't find anything of his that I had actually read; I guess I knew the name from old pulp cover art.
Actually you are thinking of the novel Way Station by Clifford Simak. It was out of print, as was all his work except City, but has been recently reprinted in hardcover by Old Earth Books. (There is also a project by Darkside Press to print all his short stories, but it seems to have stalled after volume two.) He's one of my favorite authors, and I would recommend both of the above and the various short story collections.
I have a copy if you'd like to borrow it, or it shouldn't be hard to find a used PB copy for a couple of dollars.
Both Simak and Wellman sometimes used a kind of a down-home style and mountain setting. But while Simak used that setting for SF, Wellman seems to have written mostly horror. I knew Wellman's name, but when I looked him up on the Contento index, I couldn't find anything of his that I had actually read; I guess I knew the name from old pulp cover art.
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