A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must somehow unravel a confounding alien technologyโor else surrender himself to a host of incomprehensible horrors
For thousands of years, Carter Horton has been traveling across the galaxy toward a distant world capable of supporting human life. At journeyโs end, awakened from his millennia-long sleep by a curiously adaptive android, he is informed that his crewmates have all perished due to a system malfunction. But worse is yet to come: Hortonโs sentient ship is refusing to return him to Earth, and a strangely cordial predator is waiting for him on the planetโs surface. The repulsive creature, Carnivore, arrived here via a tunnel across the universe, as did his late companionโa human dubbing himself William Shakespeareโwhom Carnivore just recently devoured. But the tunnel moves in only one direction, and if Carter is unable to reverse it, he will find himself marooned forever in this incomprehensible world, at the mercy of monsters and a terrifying, mind-freezing alien anomaly that occurs every evening in the โGod-hour.โ
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With unparalleled verve, award-winning science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak performs a truly astonishing feat of world-creation in Shakespeareโs Planet. Bursting with intelligence, imagination, and breathtaking invention, this is a gem of speculative fiction from one of the genreโs most revered and innovative artists.
Sciencefiction en fantasy