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Like every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops—even though he was aware this was—

Invasion:

Suddenly money had no value. It couldn’t buy a home, clothes or food. Someone with enormous quantities of cash was buying houses and tearing them down—buying stores and closing them. A few people could have stopped the panic. They could have said that the Earth was being taken over by ruthless aliens who walked like men. In fact, they did say it. The trouble was, no one believed them until it was too late.

“Un anillo alrededor del sol” ha sido descrita en alguna ocasión como la maravillosa historia de un juguete infantil que abre las puertas de infinitos universos probables. La historia protagonizada por el escritor Jay Vickers, que se ve inmerso en un conflicto de consecuencias impredecibles y que afecta por igual a los dos lados del telón de acero, constituye, además de una intensa historia de intriga, la explicación más clara y divertida que se ha escrito jamás de la teoría de la relatividad.

Aunando una estructura que le permite administrar hábilmente la información que va suministrando al lector con unos personajes muy bien construidos y un agudo sentido del humor, Clifford D. Simak logró en “Una anillo alrededor del sol” la que sin duda es su novela más inteligente y efectiva.

An invalid may occupy his days by dreaming of a better world; but what about his nightmares?