โ Scribed by Clifford D. Simak
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The Evans family (David, Timothy, Enid, Henry, Emma, and Emma's husband, Horace) are refugees from an era one million years in the future, when the inhabitants of Earth have abandoned their human bodies, choosing to become insubstantial spirits, mere specks of glitter that drift away and disappear into the star light. Any human beings who resist the cult are hunted down by killer robots and summarily executed; only a few mavericks survive on the fringes of society. The Evans clan escapes in three "time travelers" . and they travel to the sixteenth century. They settle in a remote corner of Shropshire, England, where they live peacefully in Hopkins Acre, a country estate, until the arrival of two unexpected guests from the twentieth century. Simak's genius as a science fiction novelist is nowhere better shown than in his masterful balancing and interweaving of these three complicated plot lines. In fact, HIGHWAY OF ETERNITY has all the structural complexity of a Charles Dickens novel, and, like the characters in Dickens' novels, all the entities here are somehow reunited while a complex web of causal connections is skillfully established. Simak also excels at characterization and description; he can evoke the vastness of deep space, the loneliness of the Southwestern desert, the gray world of Eternity, and the "green rectangle" of Hopkins Acre. HIGHWAY OF ETERNITY is considerably more than a good science fiction yarn. Simak eloquently makes the point that, without mavericks and explorers, the human race as we know it would surely diminish into nothingness.
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