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Title: A Childish Exercise in Wish-Fulfillment
Review: Way Station is long-winded and silly to the point of being embarrassingly childish. Simak piles on coincidence after coincidence and wonder after wonder until you are infuriated at the degree of credulousness he expects from the reader. His narration is ponderous and repetitious, and he feels a need to explain the obvious--often more than once. He and his editor appear to have a problem with subject-verb agreement. As a fifty-year lover of science fiction, I am amazed that this book won the Hugo Award.
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