“A wrongness persisted, a sense of aberration, some factor not quite right, the feeling of a corner. But Boone could not pin it down; there seemed no way to reach it.”

— Clifford D. Simak, Highway of Eternity

Highway of Eternity (1986)

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American writer, journalist 1904–1988

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