HIGHWAY OF ETERNITY

by Clifford D. Simak ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 1986

A mind-boggling time-travel/alternate-worlds yarn, bulging with folksy charm: grandmaster Simak's first novel since the feeble Where the Evil Dwells (1982). When investigator Jay Corcoran's client mysteriously disappears, Jay examines the man's hotel room--where, thanks to his ""trick"" vision, Jay descries an extra ""balcony"" stuck to the outside of the hotel. With no means of access to the balcony, Jay summons old friend Tom Boone--who, when faced with unavoidable danger, has the curious ability to ""step around a corner"" into another reality. Jay and Tom are standing in the room when the hotel is demolished about their ears; Tom grabs Jay and ""steps around the corner"" onto the balcony: the latter is actually a time machine, and the pair soon fetch up in 18th-century England. Here live a strange collection of friends who turn out to be time-refugees from a million years in the future. In that time, some weird aliens, the fanatical ""Infinites,"" are forcing everyone to give up the flesh and become disembodied, immortal intelligences--a step that not everyone is prepared to take. But Jay and Tom's respite is brief: soon a killer machine sent by the Infinites shows up, so the friends desperately disperse even farther into time--only to experience yet more adventures involving several different aliens, robots, space-time machines, spies, colossal trees, and more. Top-notch work from one of sf's most agreeable practitioners.

Pub Date: June 1, 1986

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Ballantine

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 1986

Categories: FICTION