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The opening is the doggie editors preface to a later collection of what fragments remain from the old tales. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading way station. Simak uses a richly ironic structure to tell this vast saga. It had just been published in 1952, although the 8 stories had been appearing in magazines as far back as 1943. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written.
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