![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a small and fast-moving story and at the same time a bit philosophical and even mystical. But I could not put this book down for a second. Instead it is soft and quiet and Wallace is a low-key, warm character. No space battles and otherworldly adventures. But the CIA takes notice and begins to spy… Unknown to others, the back room of his house is also an intergalactic way station, that receives alien visitors and sends them on their way again. By day he receives the mail, sometimes interacts with his redneck neighbors and their deaf daughter, and disappears again into his wooden house. Enoch Wallace lives by himself in a valley in the middle of nowhere and he is 124 years old, but doesn’t look a day older than 30. It is the most unique, heartwarming, one-of-a-kind novel. Yet it is sometimes called a space opera. It is about an old veteran of the American civil war, living like a hermit in an old wooden house with his rifle in a country of small-minded hillbillies. What do you think about when you hear the term space opera? To those familiar with the science fiction genre it has a history of meaning and nowadays it is broadly used to designate a dramatic, large-scale epic involving aliens, space battles and heroic adventures on other planets. ![]()
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