Clifford Simak, Way Station. Hugo winner for 1964.
A cold-war novel unsurprisingly concerned with the possibility of nuclear war--plot features a Civil War veteran who has been chosen to run a galactic "way station" by which various alien species travel through our arm of the Milky Way. Thus, it's a novel of 'first contact' even as it deploys the familiar "are we humans civilized enough to join the rest of the galaxy" motif.
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Gentle Sir Philip Sidney, thou knew'st what belong'd to a scholler; thou knew'st what pains, what toil, what travail conduct to perfection.
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