![]() ![]() After a few days, they start to churn out little black boxes that eat the cellulose balls. They eat trees and produce balls of cellulose. Hundreds of huge extra-terrestrial black boxes have landed in the U.S.A. THE VISITORS has been first published in 1980. Simak presents quite a sophisticated view of a pastoral man, to whom personal integrity and honesty matter greatly despite an undemonstrative exterior. In a choice between money and ideas, or between peaceful communion and violent confrontation, which would you pick? Does a slow pace mean boredom, or is there virtue in patience and deliberation? Mr. Simak examines what is important to the advancement of a culture. Each one of Lansing's new companions comes from the planet Earth but from Earths that had different social and political evoluti. There, he makes the acquaintance of five other people who have undergone the same transfer than he has. He wakes up in the middle of a forest and, after a while, reaches a small hostelry near a river. They are also about Jenkins, a robot who served all the Websters who lived in the family home.Īs he's examining a strange talking slot machine in his college's basement, Edward Lansing is suddenly sent to a parallel Earth. ![]() These legends, that cover thousands of years, are about the Webster family who produced an impressive number of scientists and politicians during the course of time. ![]() They are able to speak and they like to study the old legends describing a world ruled by Humans. In a distant future, Earth is ruled by dogs. ![]()
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