Project Mastodon
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If Project Hail Mary Book left you craving another story built on one person alone against an alien landscape, Clifford D. Simak's Project Mastodon strips that premise down to its sharpest edge.
Hudson wakes in a far-future Earth where no constellation is recognizable and no companion is in sight - only the vast, silent wilderness of a world separated from his own by an almost incomprehensible gulf of years.
What follows is a spare, tightly wound survival narrative driven by time displacement rather than interstellar travel: one man trying to read an unfamiliar sky, orient himself in deep time, and stay alive long enough to understand where - and when - he is.
At novella length, the story delivers its sense of wonder quickly and leaves it lodged in your mind long after the last page.
Clifford D. Simak
During his fifty-five-year career, CLIFFORD D. SIMAK produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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