A Choice of Gods
By Clifford D. Simak
- Release Date: 2015-12-01
- Genre: Science Fiction
Description
A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on an abandoned Earth in this novel by the Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station.
What if you woke up one morning on Earth . . . and no one else was there?
That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans, including Jason Whitney, his wife Martha, and the remnants of a tribe of Native Americans in the year 2135. Their inexplicable abandonment had unexpected benefits: the eventual development of mental telepathy and other extrasensory powers, inner peace, and best of all, near-immortality.
Now, five thousand years later, most of the remaining humans live a tranquil, pastoral life, leaving technological and religious exploration to the masses of robot servants who no longer have humans to serve. But the unexpected reappearance of Jason's brother, who had teleported to the stars many years before, threatens to change everything yet again—for John Whitney is the bearer of startling information about where Earth's population went and why—and the most disturbing news of all: They may finally be coming home again.
Nominated for the Hugo Award when it was originally published, Clifford D. Simak's brilliant and thought-provoking A Choice of Gods has lost nothing of its power to astonish and intrigue. A masterwork of speculative fiction, intelligent and ingenious, it is classic Simak, standing tall among the very best science fiction that has ever been written.
The third author to be honored as a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), Clifford D. Simak also received three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, an International Fantasy Award, and a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Reviews
A truly intriguing plot
5By Whim1954And I got my teen granddaughter to read along with me chapter to chapter. I swear she gained IQ points but best of all got us both looking at the bigger picture.Warning
5By farm§girlThis book will make you think!GREAT!
5By Crystalight2017I love this book so much, I could barely stop reading!!
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