Way Station
- 210
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Our view
“Way Station” is quiet, humane science fiction: a Civil War veteran who has spent a century hosting alien travellers on a Wisconsin farm. Some readers praise the prose and the warmth of the telling. The story stays with one solitary man and the burden that his knowledge and long life have become. At 210 pages, it is science fiction of the gentle, reflective kind.
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About the book
Way Station is a 1963 science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak, originally published as Here Gather the Stars in two parts in Galaxy Magazine in June and August 1963. Way Station won the 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 192 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 56% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 17 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 175 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Way Station?
It has 210 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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