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When Our Children’s Children Come to Visit

Our Children’s Children
Clifford D. Simak
Ebook $9.99

It’s been a little while since I posted about Simak here, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t read any more of his work.  I’ve just been slammed with work and haven’t had a chance to post.  I’ve got at least one more Simak post coming up.

This short novel was published in 1974 after being serialized in Worlds of If. Like much of Simak’s work, it involves time travel.

The plot is fairly straightforward.  Doorways open up all over the world, and people start pouring out of them.  The spokesman for the newcomers tells the President that they are refugees from 500 years in the future.  They are fleeing an alien invasion. Continue reading