Enoch Wallace returned to his family's farm after the Civil War, and farmed it with his father until a freak accident left him alone on it. Then, after some grieving and meditation on what the future might hold, he receives a most unusual visitor--a traveler from further away than he could have imagined.
Ulysses--the name Enoch gives him, suitable to the human tongue--is an emissary from Galactic Central, here to recruit Enoch to operate a way station for galactic travelers. A century later, he's still running it, and hasn't aged a day.
People are starting to notice.
And stresses are appearing in galactic civilization, even as Earth appears to be sliding toward a third and more terrible world war.
That description may make it seem strange that this is a very gentle book, quietly moving rather than brimming with action and excitement. Enoch, Ulysses, and Enoch's few human friends, the mailman Winslowe, the deaf-mute neighbor girl Lucy Fisher, and a new arrival in his life, CIA agent Claude Lewis, have some very knotty problems to work through in very little time.
This is a story about good people taking on literally world-changing problems, in a quiet, pastoral setting.
And it works.
Get to know these people. You won't regret it.
Highly recommended.
I bought this audiobook.
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