The hunt for his killer leads a dead professor of supernatural phenomena
into the perilous intrigues of aliens, fairy folk, and time travelers in
this classic of science fiction.
Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected
faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine his
chagrin when he turns up at a Wisconsin matter transmission station
several weeks later and discovers he's not only dead but unemployed.
During an interstellar mission to investigate rumors of dragon activity,
this alternate Maxwell is intercepted by a strange alien race that wants
him to carry knowledge of a remarkable technology back to Earth, and it
seems someone does not want the information shared. Suddenly, it's
essential for Maxwell to find his own killer. He enlists the aid of
Carol Hampton of the Time College, along with her pet saber-toothed
tiger, a ghost with memory issues, and the intelligent Neanderthal man
recently rescued from a prehistoric cooking pot. But the search is
pointing them toward the goblins, fairies, and assorted Little Folk
living in reservations on campus and into the dangerous heart of an
interspecies blood feud that has been raging for millions of years.
An enthrallingly brilliant amalgam of science fiction, adventure, fairy
tale fantasy, and murder mystery, The Goblin Reservation has long been
a favorite of Clifford D. Simak fans and serious science fiction
aficionados in general. Ingeniously inventive and unabashedly
tongue-in-cheek - combining teleportation, time travel, and alien
contact with dinosaurs, trolls, and William Shakespeare - this
magnificent literary mélange is a bravura demonstration of a
multiaward-winning fantasy and science fiction master operating at the
imaginative peak of his considerable powers.
