The authorities dug it up and took it away, upsetting the Vegans. Years before, an aged Vegan had died at the station, and in accordance with Vegan custom, Enoch had buried the body in the family plot. Enoch tells them to leave and never come back. Hank tries to enter the house, but cannot, even with an axe. When the men accuse Enoch of harboring her, he invites them to search.
Her father then started whipping her, so she temporarily blinded him and ran away. Lucy tried to stop her brother from training his new coon dog using a live animal, eventually paralyzing first the dog, then his master, with her mind. Hank Fisher (her white trash father) and her brother come. When he sees her pursuers approaching, he takes her into the house on impulse, breaking his rule of letting no human inside. She shows him her back she has been whipped until she bled. Enoch realizes he is being watched, but is not overly concerned. Lewis and his team secretly keep him under surveillance for two years.
He has only a few friends, including old mailman Winslowe Smith and a woman in her early twenties, deaf-mute neighbor Lucy.Īlmost a hundred years later, the US government becomes aware of him, and CIA agent Claude Lewis is sent to investigate. His neighbors are aware of his longevity, but he keeps to his family farm, and they mind their own business. Enoch tries to communicate with them, with varying degrees of success, and befriends some of them. His job is to monitor the machinery, including the regular and emergency "materializers", and make sure the biological needs of the wide variety of travelers are met. The equipment is installed in his house, while he lives in a small adjoining shed. Grant), to operate a way station for interstellar travelers for Galactic Central. He is recruited by an alien, whom Enoch names Ulysses (after Ulysses S. Way Station won the 1964 Hugo Award for Best Novel.īorn in 1840, Enoch Wallace is an American Civil War veteran who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Simak, originally published as Here Gather the Stars in two parts in Galaxy Magazine in June and August 1963. Way Station is a 1963 science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Way Station was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1963 as Here Gather the Stars
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