Clifford D. Simak

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• Apr-2024
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Tales of science fiction and adventure from the Hugo Award–winning author of Way Station and City. The long and prolific career of Clifford D. Simak cemented him as one of the formative voices of the science fiction and fantasy genre. The third...

• Jun-2023
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This collection of stories from the Hugo Award -- winning science fiction author ranges from alien planets to the more peculiar corners of the American landscape. A pioneering voice in twentieth-century science fiction, Clifford D. Simak earned hi...

• Nov-2022
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Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself -- restless forever with an ultimate knowledge, possessing which no man could die!...

• Nov-2022
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Brave explorers encounter a dangerous new world and a terrifying future Earth in these two classic novels by the pioneering SFWA Grand Master.Cemetery World After a disastrous planet-wide war, Earth is nothing more than an elite graveyard -- but ...

• Nov-2022
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Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award -- winning author.The Trouble with Tycho Prospecting on the moon is grim, dangerous, and usually unre...

• Sep-2022
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Great collection of action short stories by Clifford D. Simak from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Hellhounds of the Cosmos", "The World That Couldn't Be", "Second Childhood", and "The Shipshape Miracle"....

• Sep-2020
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Mr. Meek was having his troubles. First, the educated bugs worried him; then the welfare worker tried to stop the Ring Rats' feud by enlisting his aid. And now, he was a drafted space-polo player—a fortune bet on his ability at a game he had ne...

• Jun-2020
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Fifty-five pioneers had died on the "bridge of bones" that spanned the Void to the rusty plains of Mars. Now the fifty-sixth stood on the red planet, his only ship a total wreck -- and knew that Earth was doomed unless he could send a warning...

• Jun-2020
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The castaway was a wanted man -- but he didn't know how badly he was wanted! A science fiction classic by the author of CITY and MASTODONIA....

• Mar-2018
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The unbelievable, awesomely awesome, FIFTEENTH volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction!! Featuring: Project Mastodon, by Clifford Simak The Holes Around Mars, by Jerome Bixby Big Ancestor, by F.L. Wallace Jack of No Trades, by Evelyn E. Smith The...

• Jul-2017
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Tales of science fiction and adventure from the Hugo Award -- winning author of Way Station and City.   The long and prolific career of Clifford D. Simak cemented him as one of the formative voices of the science fiction and fantasy ...

• Jul-2017
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Sherwood was a man who did not want to be found. He secretly left the last space station. Now he was marooned on a remote planet with a spaceship that was going nowhere and surrounded by diamonds. Half of him wanted to remain safely castaway until he...

• Jul-2017
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A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre's most revered Grand Masters.Legendary author Robert A. Heinlein proclaimed, "To read science fiction is to read Simak. A reader who does not like Simak stories does not like sc...

• Jul-2016
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Ten thrilling and intriguing tales of space travel, war, and alien encounters from the multiple Hugo Award -- winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.This magnificent compendium of stories, written during science fiction's golden age, highlights Clif...

• Jul-2016
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From tales of alien invasions and intergalactic war to visions of dystopian tomorrows, an astonishing short story collection from a science fiction legend.Clifford D. Simak's bold visions of and ingenious speculations about humankind's future, always...

• Jul-2016
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Strange, poignant tales of life in outer space and on tomorrow's Earth from the multiple Hugo Award -- winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.Clifford D. Simak created enduring visions of future worlds, perilous space explorations, and weird alien e...

• Mar-2016
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Ten tales of wonder, danger, and the future -- including the Hugo and Nebula Award -- winning title story -- from the science fiction Grand Master. This volume contains ten stellar short stories by Clifford D. Simak, "the most underrated great sc...

• Mar-2016
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A collection featuring ten stories of wonder and imagination by a multiple award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.In the title story, Frederick Gray is closing in on seventy and has outlived his usefulness as a professor of law. He has no fami...

• Mar-2016
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Twelve classic tales of the unknown from the Hugo and Nebula Award -- winning author of Way Station. Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a lost way of life. He spent his youth in rural Wisconsin, a landscape filled with mysterio...

• Feb-2016
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Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been made possible -- and inescapable!...

• Dec-2015
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In rural Wisconsin, wonder clashes dangerously with corporate greed when an alien visitor opens up a gateway through time into a breathtaking prehistoric lost world On sabbatical from teaching at a small university, paleontologist Asa Steele is c...

• Oct-2015
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Tales of the unknown in which a fix-it man crosses into another dimension -- and more Hiram Taine is a handyman who can fix anything. When he isn't fiddling with his tools, he is roaming through the woods with his dog, Towser, as he has done for a...

• Oct-2015
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Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It's been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it takes him right back to his twenties. The door ...

• Oct-2015
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Ten stories of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be -- including the never-before-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. People work. ...

• Jun-2014
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The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. This volume assembles 2 novels and 4 shorter works -- almost 500 pages of classic fiction -- by 3-tim...

• Feb-2014
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In the 80th Century, the status-quo of Earth's galactic empire must be maintained at any cost, and no human may be killed without a fearful penalty. Yet Christopher Adams, chief of the Dept, of Galactic Investigation, has learned that several men on ...

• May-2013
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Five features works by Clifford D. Simak, John W. Jakes, Roger Dee, J. F. Bone, Alan E. Nourse, Harry Harriso...

• Jan-2012
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, "Full Cycle" is about a strange new world of the future. Was Ambrose Wilson merely a ghost...an ancient relic of a new world that had passed him...

• Apr-2011
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. "Science Fiction Gems, Vol. One" features works by Clifford D. Simak, Isaac Asimov, John Jakes, Henry Slesar, Algis Budrys, Jack Vance, ...

• Mar-2011
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Hellhounds of the Cosmos appeared in the June 1932 issue of Astounding Stories. Weird are the conditions of the interdimensional struggle faced by Dr. White's ninety-nine men. Project Mastodon appeared in the March 1955 issue of Galaxy. He was. Not h...

• Feb-2011
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SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE WORLD The pendulum clock struck slowly, its every other chime as usual setting up a sympathetic vibration in the pewter vase that stood upon the mantel. Mr. Chambers got to his feet, strode to the door, opened it and look...

• Aug-2010
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This volume assembles four classic stories from the author of "Way Station" and "Project Pope." From time travel to hunting alien pests, from invaders from the fourth dimension to impossible sexless alien biology, Clifford D. Simak plumbs the depths ...

• Jul-2010
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Who controls power controls the Solar System, and Interplanetary Power, through its power accumulators controls power. Spencer Chambers, the president of Interplanetary Power, used that control to rule the Solar System with an iron thumb that allowed...

• Mar-2010
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A link between yesterday and the tomorrow that was here already ...The closer you move to something the farther away it got ...Dreams constructed and maintained by society ...Stranded on an alien world with nobody to talk to except your spaceship ......

• Apr-2009
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When a generation ship that's traveled for a thousand years suddenly stops, one man, the lone "sinner" who can read books, must risk his life to complete the mission. A thrilling space adventure from the author of "Way Station," "City," and "Mastodon...

• Feb-2009
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The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by t...

• Feb-2009
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Hudson lay in his sleeping bag, staring at the sky. It bothered him a lot. There was not one familiar constellation, not one star that he could name with any certainty. This juggling of the stars, he thought, emphasized more than anything else in thi...

• Dec-1997
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This seventh collection to be assembled by the editor Francis Lyall, is mainly to show Clifford D. Simak's early use of ideas that fascinated him, and, with one exception, bring together stories which have been unavailable since they were first publi...

• Jun-1996
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Classic stories of science fiction by this Nebula Grandmaster award-winner. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contents: A Death in the House The Big Front Yard Goodnight Mr. James Dusty Zebra Neighbor Over the River & Through the Woods Construction Shack Grotto of ...

• Feb-1994
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A collection of short tales by the author of City and Grotto of the Dancing Deer includes the title story, in which God is depicted as an experimental scientist killed by his own creation, and others....

• Jan-1993
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Enoch Wallace survived the carnage of Gettysburg and lived through the rest of the Civil War to make it home to his parents' farm in southwest Wisconsin. But his mother was already dead and his father soon joined her in the tiny family cemetery. It w...

• Oct-1992
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• Aug-1992
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In this classic novel by the Science Fiction Grand Master, a writer searching for explanations uncovers the existence of mutants and multiple Earths: "First-rate Simak" (The New York Times). Author Jay Vickers would like nothing more than to be le...

• Apr-1987
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• Apr-1986
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Two investigators race across time to escape aliens from the future and their terrible "gift" of immortality in this novel by a Nebula Award -- winning author.What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is about to learn the answer w...

• Apr-1986
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• Sep-1982
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FOUR AGAINST HORROR Secretly and in stealth, four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of Evil--the so-called Empty Lands, filled with every evil creature from the darkest of mankind's myths. Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lo...

• Feb-1982
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Hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac space traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth in this novel from a science fiction legend.In the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered hibernating in a space capsule orbiting ...

• Feb-1982
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INNOCENTS ABROAD It all started when Professor Edward Lansing wanted to know who really wrote that great term paper on Shakespeare and learned that his student had bought it from a slot machine. Going to investigate, the good professor found the m...

• Apr-1981
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On a parallel Earth perpetually laid waste by the Harriers of the Horde, a young man must ferry what may be a true account of Jesus's teachings to distant London. He's helped by a lonely ghost, a goblin, a demon, and a warrior woman riding a griffin....

• Mar-1981
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VATICAN-17 On the Rim planet fittingly called The End of Everything, a bizarre society of robots and humans toiled for a thousand years to perfect a religion that would create a new and all-embracing faith--no novelty in a galaxy crowded with reli...

• Jun-1980
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A corporation promising immortality hides a sinister secret in this "extremely provocative" sci-fi novel (Judith Merril, author and editor).   Since the dawn of mankind, immortality has been the ultimate reward. But by the year 2148, it ...

• Jan-1980
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An enormous, mysterious box descends upon smalltown Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master. Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crus...

• Aug-1979
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• Jul-1979
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A group of humans and otherworldly beings joins a young soldier of God on a quest through an alternate, technology-free reality ruled by a powerful evil.In an alternate world where the Dark Ages never ended, "the Evil" that arises every five hundred ...

• Sep-1978
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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 ...

• Aug-1978
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• Jun-1978
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A man seeks lost knowledge in a future society that's reverted to a primitive tribal state in this novel by the Hugo Award -- winning author of Way Station.More than a thousand years have passed since humankind intentionally destroyed its treacherous...

• Apr-1977
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From Science Fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, an interstellar adventure of aliens, fairies, and time travel.Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine...

• 1976
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A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must unravel confusing 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 w...

• Oct-1975
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A writer finds himself trapped in an isolated village where anything imagined becomes reality in the award-winning author's inventive contemporary fantasy.Hoping to write his book in quiet and seclusion, Horton Smith has returned home to Pilot Knob. ...

• Feb-1975
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Fleeing carnivorous alien monsters, the surviving human population from the far future escapes into the present in this science fiction adventure.Our human descendants from five centuries in the future are coming to visit -- all one billion of them -...

• Jan-1975
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A scholar, a goblin, and a gnome, among others, pursue the secrets of a vanished ancient race through a wasteland of dark magic in this enthralling fantasy quest adventure On an Earth that is different from ours, the young scholar Mark Cornwall b...

• Feb-1973
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THE GRAVEYARD CHASE Fletcher Carson an artist, travels to the cemetery to create a "composition." He takes with him his "compositor," a sentient (but rather stupid) machine for creating art; Elmer, his ancient, powerful robot friend; and Cynthia Lans...

• 1973
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A volume of eleven stories from the Hugo Award -- winning science fiction author that explore inner space, future worlds, and the peculiar lives of robots. One of the twentieth century's most pioneering science fiction authors, Clifford D. S...

• 1971
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A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on an abandoned Earth in this novel by the Nebula Award -- winning author of Way Station.What if you woke up one morning on Earth . . . and no one else was there?That is the...

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Clifford D.Simak needs no introduction. For decades his creative talents have delighted and inspired the Science Fiction world. This volume is a collection of four of his most inventive, humorous and exciting novelettes--each different, each fanta...

• 1963
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• 1962
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A telepath acquires a powerful alien consciousness -- and must run to escape corporate assassins and angry mobs -- in this novel by the author of Way Station.Space travel has been abandoned in the twenty-second century. It is deemed too dangerous, ex...

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• 1952
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This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers. Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city -- first for the countryside...

• 1951
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TIME AND AGAIN When Asher Sutton returned to Earth, he discovered that beings from the future had made preparations for him: some would help him, some would try to own him, and some would see him dead. And all because of a book that he had not yet...

A reporter uncovers a terrifying conspiracy, in this thrilling classic from a Science Fiction Grand Master. After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely ...

A plantation owner on an alien world tracks the strange animal Cytha and gets a lesson in xeno-ecology. Some things are better left alone....