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Series: Novel
Genre: SF
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
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Special Deliverance by Clifford D. SimakDescription: It all started when Professor Edward Lansing wanted to know who really wrote that great term paper on Shakespeare and learned that his student had bought it from a slot machine. Going to investigate, the good professor found the machine, which gave him two keys and sent him in search of other slot machines. The third machine he tried took his money and transported him to a strange new world.
Here Lansing meets up with an odd assortment of fellow travelers - including a take-charge Brigadier, a pompous Parson, a female engineer, a lady poet, and Jurgens, a caretaker robot - all of whom are as mystified as he. Plucked from their own timelines, they were players in a game without rules, and seemingly, without a goal.
Thus begins an extraordinary quest by these unwilling adventurers, one that leads them to an immense, featureless blue cube and into an ancient and mysterious city, tempts them with even stranger worlds, and, finally, provides them with a life-or-death challenge.
Also in this series are A Choice of Gods, A Heritage of Stars, All Flesh Is Grass, Cemetery World, City, Cosmic Engineers, Destiny Doll, Enchanted Pilgrim, Highway of Eternity, Mastodonia (UK title Catface), Our Children's Children, Out of Their Minds, Project Pope, Ring Around the Sun: A Story of Tomorrow, Shakespeare's Planet, The Fellowship of the Talisman, The Goblin Reservation, The Trouble with Tycho, The Visitors, The Werewolf Principle, They Walked Like Men, Time and Again, Time Is The Simplest Thing, Way Station, Where the Evil Dwells, Why Call Them Back From Heaven?
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