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Way Station
Published 1963 by Doubleday · 210 pages
Hugo · 1964
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6 award entries · 6 books · 1 wins · 1962–1982
Synopsis
Enoch Wallace, the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War, has secretly operated an interstellar way station for alien travelers in his rural Wisconsin farmhouse for nearly a century, granted immortality by his extraterrestrial visitors. When government agents begin investigating his unaging existence and Cold War tensions threaten nuclear annihilation, Enoch must find a way to save both his secret and humanity itself.
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