By Clifford D. Simak
greater than 1000 years have handed on account that humankind deliberately destroyed its treacherous know-how, picking to revert again to a primitive tribal kingdom. during this society the rusting mind instances of long-inert robots are thought of trophies, and the scant wisdom that has survived is doled out to an inquisitive few in monastery-like “universities.” it really is at one such heart of studying that younger Tom Cushing first reads of the mythical “Place of Going to the Stars,” rumored to exist on a excessive butte someplace within the western a part of the land. pushed by way of enthusiasm and an insatiable have to tune the parable to its resource, Tom units out on an grand trek throughout what used to be referred to as “America,” teaming up with a witch, the world’s final final robotic, and different peculiar partners. yet the entire unbelievable discoveries and risks they stumble upon alongside the best way will light sooner than the revelations that anticipate them at journey’s end.
Clifford D. Simak, award-winning technology fiction Grand grasp, bargains a wide ranging imaginative and prescient of the long run that's either dystopian and hopeful in equivalent degree. In A historical past of Stars, he boldly monitors the center, intelligence, and remarkable ingenious powers that experience proven him as one of many all-time maximum authors of speculative fiction.
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Watching them closely, he could detect no sign that they could. Finally, after long minutes, the horsemen began to come down the slope, the horses lurching over the edge of the bluff and coming down the slope in stiff-legged jumps. Most of the men, he saw, wore buckskins, darkened by work and weather. Some wore fur caps with the tails of wolf or fox or coon fluttering out behind. In some cases, similar animal tails were fastened to the shoulders of their buckskins. Others wore only leather trousers, the upper torso either bare or draped with furred robes or jackets.
And there it was, west of the river and almost to the North Dakota line: THUNDER BUTTE, with the legend faint in the weak morning light, with the wide-spreading, close-together brown contour lines showing the shape and extent of it. Thunder Butte, at last! He felt the surge of elation in him and fought to hold it down. Rollo might be wrong. The old hunter who had told him might have been wrong—or worse, simply spinning out a story. Or this might be the wrong Thunder Butte; there might be many others.
Ah, yes, now I know. I’ve seen brain cases of robots, but not a living robot. ” “My name is Rollo,” the robot said. “I am the last one that there is. Although if I cannot find a bear . “My name is Ezra,” said the old one. “I am an ancient wanderer. I wander up and down the land to converse with neighbors, wherever I may find them. This splendid patch of sunflowers, a vast stretch of tumbleweeds, a cluster of rosebushes, even the grass at times, although the grass has little to recommend itself “Grandfather,” said Elayne, “put on your moccasins.