Time and Again
by Simak, Clifford D
It is the future and Mankind has spread to the stars like seeds before the wind. One star system, though, shrouded in mystery, has defied Man's every attempt to visit it. Every expedition to 61 Cygni has found its path inexplicably deflected and has been forced to return home in frustration. In desperation, special agent Asher Sutton was sent on a solo mission, but unlike the others he did not return and 61 Cygni was quietly forgotten.
As the book begins, twenty years have passed and, against all odds, Asher Sutton has returned. The mystery only deepens when it is discovered that Asher's ship was damaged many years ago in a crash that left it completely disabled and ought to have killed its sole passenger. The conclusion becomes inescapable; Asher Sutton died but now he's back. As the story develops, we discover Asher is not alone and it's not clear that he's even entirely human. But most importantly, Asher returns bearing an idea that will shake Mankind's beliefs to their foundations.
In Time and Again, Mankind is spread thin across the stars and to help hold the frontier he has created biological androids. Created in the lab by chemical means, androids are sterile and cannot reproduce but in all other respects are as human as their creators. None the less, androids are treated as property and bear a mark on their foreheads to distinguish them from "true" humans.
Androids dream of one day being acknowledged and treated as the equals of the "humans" and Asher's idea is the key for which they have been searching. Asher soon becomes the center of a struggle between three groups; humans of the present who fear any new idea that might loosen Mankind's tenuous grip on the stars, humans of the future who, via time travel, are waging a quiet war to alter the past to maintain the current status quo, and the androids of the future who struggle to let Asher's idea be born.
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Time And Again ( First And Again)
by Simak Clifford D
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Time and Again: A Science Fiction Adventure
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Asher Sutton has been lost in deepest space for twenty years. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that he will return- and that he must be killed. He is destined to write a book whose message may lead to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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TIME AND AGAIN
by Clifford D. Simak
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Time and Again (A Collier Nucleus Science Fiction Classic)
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Time And Again
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TIME AND AGAIN.
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Time and Again
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London: William Heinemann, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near-fine with bookseller stamp at bottom of flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a fine dust jacket (price intact) with virtually no wear. A beautiful copy of the scarce British edition of this classic time travel novel.
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Ace NY 1951 256 pages. First thus edition Very good condition with edge wear, light creasing and rubbing. See photos. PB54
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Ace Books, 1963 #F-239.
An early and interesting Simak novel, first published in 1951. When a long-lost spaceman returns to Earth from a distant planet where our "souls" may live, his fuddled observations spark a religious schism and war.
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Time and Again
by Clifford D. Simak
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