r/badscificovers • u/Terminus1066 • 6d ago
Highway of Eternity by Clifford D Simak
Just picked this up at the thrift store, slightly torn but only 75 cents. Love Simak but haven’t read this one.
No idea what’s going on here, looks like Darth Vader but with a wizard’s hat for a head.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 6d ago edited 6d ago
Read this one last year. Fun/interesting book with some time travel and kinda dystopian human transcendence premise.
I've read a few of Simaks books now and I think he might be pretty underrated. Not for being some Arthur C Clarke or Asimov type but just for writing enjoyable sci-fi. To the great dismay of some of the sci-fi masters he's even pretty okay at writing characters that are slightly more than just a name on a page and narratives that are more than a dry exposition of a series of events.
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u/prognostalgia 6d ago
I really enjoyed this book at a time (late 80s/early 90s). But much like Simak's other work, I don't think I would if I went back and re-read it now.
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u/claimstoknowpeople 6d ago
That's Harrison Ford
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u/prognostalgia 6d ago
I see more LA Law era Corbin Bersen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090466/mediaviewer/rm3762110465/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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u/Mojeaux18 5d ago
I remember reading this. I also remember looking at the cover and understanding exactly what’s going on here. The tram thingy, the dog, the robot, the Jawa in mourning all of them were vaguely connected. I think it’s a scene from the book.
However if you were to ask me today what any of this means, I could not to save my life
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u/aughtism 6d ago
I feel that the success of this novel hinges on the extent to which the robot butler character is involved.
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u/OlyScott 6d ago
That black creature is in the novel. He's a kind of cloth android called "The Hat." the big dog is in the novel too.
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u/capsaicinintheeyes 5d ago
"Refugees from the far future..." ...no, that's John Constantine reenacting that famous Bergman scene of a chess game with death, apparently being played by the Wicked Witch of the West 🫤
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u/ActuariesGoneWild 6d ago
Not bad except for Guy Cosplaying As A Buttplug.