The Visitors

The Visitors is like a book out of time. It feels for the life of me like a novel written in 1945, yet it was published in 1980. Was this a lost manuscript? I searched throughout the book for evidence that Simak was playing a kind of trick, an ironic game, writing an imitation 1940's alien encounter......more

The Visitors was serialized in three parts in Analog magazine from October through December in 1979 and then published in book form by Del Rey the following year. Their hardback has a kind of dull fly-fishing painting, but their mass market edition has a good Martin Hoffman that goes back to the Vin......more

3.5 ⭐ Приятна фантастика, но не ме впечатли колкото други книги на големия Клифърд Саймък.........more

A quick read by one of the authors I've been reading since elementary school--Clifford Donald Simak (1904-1988). "The Visitors" is one of his later books, published in 1980. It's a first contact story, which is my favorite SF trope. In this story, a huge black box appears in the sky near the small n......more

Enjoyable older science fiction novel (published originally in 1980), that had a real Golden Age feel to it. Though some elements are a bit dated, other elements felt either timeless or still quite fresh and original. I have only read one other work of Clifford D. Simak’s, his book _Mastodonia_ (a c......more