A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on a
mysteriously abandoned Earth in this breathtaking science fiction
classic from one of the genre's acknowledged masters.
What if you woke up one morning on Earth...and no one else was there?
That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans, including Jason
Whitney, his wife Martha, and the remnants of a tribe of Native
Americans in the year 2135. Their inexplicable abandonment had
unexpected benefits: the eventual development of mental telepathy and
other extrasensory powers, inner peace, and, best of all, near
immortality. Now, 5,000 years later, most of the remaining humans live a
tranquil, pastoral life, leaving technological and religious exploration
to the masses of robot servants who no longer have humans to serve.
But the unexpected reappearance of Jason's brother, who had teleported
to the stars many years before, threatens to change everything yet
again - for John Whitney is the bearer of startling information about
where Earth's population went and why. And the most disturbing news of
all: They may finally be coming home again.
Nominated for the Hugo Award when it first appeared in print more than
40 years ago, Clifford D. Simak's brilliant and thought-provoking A
Choice of Gods has lost nothing of its power to astonish and intrigue.
A masterwork of speculative fiction, intelligent and ingenious, it is
classic Simak, standing tall among the very best science fiction that
has ever been written.
