Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Over the River & Through the Woods
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Collected Works of Clifford D. Simak
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Collected Works of Clifford D. Simak is a compilation of the renowned science fiction author's most celebrated writings, showcasing his unique blend of futuristic technology and deep philosophical exploration. Simak's literary style is characterized by thoughtful introspection and imaginative world-building, making each story a thought-provoking journey into the unknown. Set within a variety of literary contexts, from dystopian futures to alien worlds, Simak's stories offer a captivating glimpse into the possibilities of the human imagination. Clifford D. Simak, known for his visionary storytelling and insightful commentary on human nature, was a pioneer in the science fiction genre. His personal experiences growing up in rural Wisconsin and working as a journalist provided him with a diverse perspective that shines through in his works. Simak's ability to delve into existential questions while creating vividly detailed settings has solidified his place as a master storyteller in the world of speculative fiction. I highly recommend The Collected Works of Clifford D. Simak to readers who enjoy thought-provoking science fiction that pushes the boundaries of imagination. Simak's timeless themes and expert storytelling are sure to captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, making this collection a must-read for fans of the genre.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Collected Works of Clifford D. Simak is a compilation of the renowned science fiction author's most celebrated writings, showcasing his unique blend of futuristic technology and deep philosophical exploration. Simak's literary style is characterized by thoughtful introspection and imaginative world-building, making each story a thought-provoking journey into the unknown. Set within a variety of literary contexts, from dystopian futures to alien worlds, Simak's stories offer a captivating glimpse into the possibilities of the human imagination. Clifford D. Simak, known for his visionary storytelling and insightful commentary on human nature, was a pioneer in the science fiction genre. His personal experiences growing up in rural Wisconsin and working as a journalist provided him with a diverse perspective that shines through in his works. Simak's ability to delve into existential questions while creating vividly detailed settings has solidified his place as a master storyteller in the world of speculative fiction. I highly recommend The Collected Works of Clifford D. Simak to readers who enjoy thought-provoking science fiction that pushes the boundaries of imagination. Simak's timeless themes and expert storytelling are sure to captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, making this collection a must-read for fans of the genre.
City
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: S.F. Masterworks
ISBN: 9780575105232
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?
Publisher: S.F. Masterworks
ISBN: 9780575105232
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?
Way Station
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504013182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors—and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch’s eyes to humanity’s impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that “to read science-fiction is to read Simak.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504013182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors—and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch’s eyes to humanity’s impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that “to read science-fiction is to read Simak.”
Shakespeare's Planet
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150401328X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must somehow unravel a confounding alien technology—or else surrender himself to a host of incomprehensible horrors For thousands of years, Carter Horton has been traveling across the galaxy toward a distant world capable of supporting human life. At journey’s end, awakened from his millennia-long sleep by a curiously adaptive android, he is informed that his crewmates have all perished due to a system malfunction. But worse is yet to come: Horton’s sentient ship is refusing to return him to Earth, and a strangely cordial predator is waiting for him on the planet’s surface. The repulsive creature, Carnivore, arrived here via a tunnel across the universe, as did his late companion—a human dubbing himself William Shakespeare—whom Carnivore just recently devoured. But the tunnel moves in only one direction, and if Carter is unable to reverse it, he will find himself marooned forever in this incomprehensible world, at the mercy of monsters and a terrifying, mind-freezing alien anomaly that occurs every evening in the “God-hour.” With unparalleled verve, award-winning science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak performs a truly astonishing feat of world-creation in Shakespeare’s Planet. Bursting with intelligence, imagination, and breathtaking invention, this is a gem of speculative fiction from one of the genre’s most revered and innovative artists.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150401328X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must somehow unravel a confounding alien technology—or else surrender himself to a host of incomprehensible horrors For thousands of years, Carter Horton has been traveling across the galaxy toward a distant world capable of supporting human life. At journey’s end, awakened from his millennia-long sleep by a curiously adaptive android, he is informed that his crewmates have all perished due to a system malfunction. But worse is yet to come: Horton’s sentient ship is refusing to return him to Earth, and a strangely cordial predator is waiting for him on the planet’s surface. The repulsive creature, Carnivore, arrived here via a tunnel across the universe, as did his late companion—a human dubbing himself William Shakespeare—whom Carnivore just recently devoured. But the tunnel moves in only one direction, and if Carter is unable to reverse it, he will find himself marooned forever in this incomprehensible world, at the mercy of monsters and a terrifying, mind-freezing alien anomaly that occurs every evening in the “God-hour.” With unparalleled verve, award-winning science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak performs a truly astonishing feat of world-creation in Shakespeare’s Planet. Bursting with intelligence, imagination, and breathtaking invention, this is a gem of speculative fiction from one of the genre’s most revered and innovative artists.
I Am Crying All Inside
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504012658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
From the Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station: Ten stories—including one never before published—of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be. People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same. Along with the other stories in this collection, “I Am Crying All Inside” is a compact marvel—a picture of an impossible reality that is not so different from our own. Also included in this volume is the newly published “I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air,” originally written for Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Visions.™ Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this ebook.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504012658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
From the Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station: Ten stories—including one never before published—of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be. People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same. Along with the other stories in this collection, “I Am Crying All Inside” is a compact marvel—a picture of an impossible reality that is not so different from our own. Also included in this volume is the newly published “I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air,” originally written for Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Visions.™ Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this ebook.
Special Deliverance
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504024109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
From a Nebula and Hugo award winner, “one the best-loved authors in SF”: A tale of humans and one robot navigating an alien puzzle-world (Publishers Weekly). Following a conversation with a talking slot machine, Professor Edward Lansing finds himself mysteriously transported to a tavern on a long and empty road. It is immediately obvious to the educator that he is no longer on campus—or even Earth—and that he is not alone. Lansing’s new companions—a female engineer, a military officer, a humorless priest, a poetess, and a robot named Jurgens—all hail from separate alternate realities and share Lansing’s confusion. What is clear, however, is that they must continue down the road together, encountering a series of bizarre sights, dangerous obstacles, and perplexing puzzles along the way: an abandoned, decaying city; a set of doorways; a large blue cube; a tower that sings. Soon it is apparent they are all being tested for some eerie, inexplicable reason, and the choices each must make will determine his or her future. For those who fail, the alien trail will never be seen again. A provocative science fiction allegory, Special Deliverance is Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Clifford D. Simak’s Pilgrim’s Progress—a tale of great trials and hidden agendas that expose the foibles of humanity and a fantastic exploration of the human condition. A science fiction classic brimming with intelligence, invention, and wonder, it is yet another extraordinary creation from one of the genre’s most revered grandmasters.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504024109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
From a Nebula and Hugo award winner, “one the best-loved authors in SF”: A tale of humans and one robot navigating an alien puzzle-world (Publishers Weekly). Following a conversation with a talking slot machine, Professor Edward Lansing finds himself mysteriously transported to a tavern on a long and empty road. It is immediately obvious to the educator that he is no longer on campus—or even Earth—and that he is not alone. Lansing’s new companions—a female engineer, a military officer, a humorless priest, a poetess, and a robot named Jurgens—all hail from separate alternate realities and share Lansing’s confusion. What is clear, however, is that they must continue down the road together, encountering a series of bizarre sights, dangerous obstacles, and perplexing puzzles along the way: an abandoned, decaying city; a set of doorways; a large blue cube; a tower that sings. Soon it is apparent they are all being tested for some eerie, inexplicable reason, and the choices each must make will determine his or her future. For those who fail, the alien trail will never be seen again. A provocative science fiction allegory, Special Deliverance is Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Clifford D. Simak’s Pilgrim’s Progress—a tale of great trials and hidden agendas that expose the foibles of humanity and a fantastic exploration of the human condition. A science fiction classic brimming with intelligence, invention, and wonder, it is yet another extraordinary creation from one of the genre’s most revered grandmasters.
All Flesh Is Grass
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504013247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Long before Under the Dome, this novel of a town trapped within an invisible force field earned a Nebula Award nomination for the author of Way Station. Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community—until the day Brad Carter discovers he is unable to leave. And the nearly bankrupt real estate agent is not the only one being held prisoner; every resident is confined within the town’s boundaries by an invisible force field that cannot be breached. As local tensions rapidly reach breaking point, a set of bizarre circumstances leads Brad to the source of their captivity, making him humanity’s reluctant ambassador to an alien race of sentient flora, and privy to these jailers’ ultimate intentions. But some of Millville’s most powerful citizens do not take kindly to Carter’s “collaboration with the enemy,” even under the sudden threat of global apocalypse. Decades before Stephen King trapped an entire town in Under the Dome, science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak explored the shocking effects of communal captivity on an unsuspecting population. Nominated for the Nebula Award, All Flesh Is Grass is a riveting masterwork that brilliantly reinvents the alien invasion story.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504013247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Long before Under the Dome, this novel of a town trapped within an invisible force field earned a Nebula Award nomination for the author of Way Station. Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community—until the day Brad Carter discovers he is unable to leave. And the nearly bankrupt real estate agent is not the only one being held prisoner; every resident is confined within the town’s boundaries by an invisible force field that cannot be breached. As local tensions rapidly reach breaking point, a set of bizarre circumstances leads Brad to the source of their captivity, making him humanity’s reluctant ambassador to an alien race of sentient flora, and privy to these jailers’ ultimate intentions. But some of Millville’s most powerful citizens do not take kindly to Carter’s “collaboration with the enemy,” even under the sudden threat of global apocalypse. Decades before Stephen King trapped an entire town in Under the Dome, science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak explored the shocking effects of communal captivity on an unsuspecting population. Nominated for the Nebula Award, All Flesh Is Grass is a riveting masterwork that brilliantly reinvents the alien invasion story.
The Creator and Other Stories
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Severn House Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780727845696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A collection of short tales includes the title story, in which God is depicted as an experimental scientist killed by his own creation
Publisher: Severn House Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780727845696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A collection of short tales includes the title story, in which God is depicted as an experimental scientist killed by his own creation
Hellhounds of the Cosmos
Author: Clifford Donald Simak
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775455343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This gripping short story from the golden age of science fiction is a must-read for Simak fans, or for anyone looking for an out-of-this-world adventure. As the denizens of Earth face an invasion from inhabitants of another dimension, the future of the planet hangs in the balance. Will anyone be able to stop the marauding attackers and save the human race?
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775455343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This gripping short story from the golden age of science fiction is a must-read for Simak fans, or for anyone looking for an out-of-this-world adventure. As the denizens of Earth face an invasion from inhabitants of another dimension, the future of the planet hangs in the balance. Will anyone be able to stop the marauding attackers and save the human race?