Join us as we discuss the tenth Hugo Award winner: Clifford D. Simak’s Way Station, also known as “Here Gather the Stars.”

Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she’s reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/

This month’s guest is Paul Weimer, who is an incredibly prolific fan writer. He writes for Nerds of a Feather and podcasts at Skiffy and Fanty.

From about 5:30 to about 16:40, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn’t spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail.

Intro music by Breakz Studios!

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Some things we mention, more info about some of these in the monthly free email from Patreon:

SF Signal The Functional Nerds Reactor Barnes and Noble Science Fiction blog Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein [F&SF Jul,Aug,Sep 1963; Putnam, 1963] Witch World by Andre Norton [Ace, 1963] Dune World by Frank Herbert [Analog Dec 1963,Jan,Feb 1964] Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963] Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek Men in Black Simak, TheGoblin Reservation Simak, City Simak short story: “The Big Front Yard” Star Control — sci-fi video games Walter M Miller, Jr., Canticle for LeibowitzThe Waverlies, Fredric Brown Novels of the Change, also known as the Emberverse Series, by S.M. Stirling My Fair Lady, a 1956 musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 Pygmalion Passengers: movie about generation ship “Think Like a Dinosaur” by James Patrick Kelly, originally published in the June 1995 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. Philip K. Dick, Man in the High Castle