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( covid and work stuff )

“A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river – but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself – a thing that went on caring.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

I loved this book. Which makes two for two with this author. It's my favorite kind of sci-fi which is focused on the aspect of actually being human and what that means for the individual and the for the community. It has a lot of connections with nature and, what I thought, the idea of if being an Earthling equaled or had an effect on humanity. It was published in 1963 and I just like that it's so old that it's new, y'know? Like it's not full of the same tropes everyone is using now. But as far as I've been able to tell, I haven't noticed any blatant isms that would make his books unreadable.

I am now 7 books behind schedule. Good luck to my reading goal!

“As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Way Station