Way Station

'''Simak, Clifford. Way Station.''' Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Available in a [S. F.] Book Club Edn.

Significant for a midnineteenth-century house on Earth, radically reconstructed inside to be the alien high-tech way station for travellers through the galaxy. See also for "the Talisman." In the hands of very rare sensitives, this device "becomes alive. There is a certain rapport . . . that forms a bridge between this strange machine and the cosmic spiritual force. . . . the living creature's mind, aided by the mechanism, . . . brings the force" to the civilized peoples of the galaxy (168).