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Clifford D Simak

(1904 - 1988)

About Clifford D Simak

Clifford D. Simak worked as a newspaperman for most of his life and only became a full time writer of sf after his retirement. His first published story appeared in Wonder Stories in 1931. He received the Grand Master Nebula Award in 1976.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Three

Novels

Cosmic Engineers (1950)
Time and Again (1951)
     aka First He Died
Empire (1951)
Ring Around the Sun (1952)
Time Is the Simplest Thing (1961)
     aka The Fisherman
Trouble with Tycho (1961)
They Walked Like Men (1962)
Way Station (1963)
     aka Here Gather the Stars
All Flesh Is Grass (1965)
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (1967)
The Werewolf Principle (1967)
The Goblin Reservation (1968)
So Bright the Vision (1968)
Out of Their Minds (1969)
Destiny Doll (1971)
Prehistoric Man (1971)
A Choice of Gods (1972)
Cemetery World (1973)
Our Children's Children (1974)
The Enchanted Pilgrimage (1975)
Shakespeare's Planet (1976)
A Heritage of Stars (1977)
The Fellowship of the Talisman (1978)
Mastodonia (1978)
     aka Catface
The Visitors (1980)
Project Pope (1981)
Where the Evil Dwells (1982)
Special Deliverance (1982)
Highway of Eternity (1986)

Omnibus

Pollution! (1971) (with Harry Harrison, C M Kornbluth)
Full Cycle / It was the Day of the Robot (2012) (with Frank Belknap Long)

Collections

The Creator (1946)
City (1952)
Strangers in the Universe (1956)
The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960)
Aliens for Neighbours (1961)
Other Worlds of Clifford Simak (1962)
All the Traps of Earth: And Other Stories (1963)
Night of the Puudly (1964)
Worlds Without End (1964)
Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak (1967)
Trilogy of the Future (1972)
Skirmish (1977)
Marathon Photograph: And Other Stories (1986)
Brothers: And Other Stories (1987)
Off-Planet (1988)
The Autumn Land: And Other Stories (1990)
The Immigrant: And Other Stories (1991)
The Creator and Other Stories (1993)
Over the River and Through the Woods (1995)
The Civilisation Game: And Other Stories (1997)
Startling Stories - Summer 2010 (2010) (with K G McAbee, Gerald W Page and Manly Wade Wellman)
Hellhounds of the Cosmos and Other Tales from the Fourth Dimension (2011)
Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Three: C. M. Kornbluth and others (2012) (with Manly Banister, Algis Budrys, C M Kornbluth, Milton Lesser, Sam Merwin Jr, Stanley Mullen, Kris Neville, Peter Phillips and William Tenn)

Novellas

Hellhounds of the Cosmos (2009)
Spacebred Generations (2009)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
Nebula Award Stories 6 (1971)

Non fiction

The March of Science (1969)

Anthologies containing stories by Clifford D Simak

The Best Science Fiction Stories (1951)
The Outer Reaches (1951)
     aka The Time of Infinity
Stories for Tomorrow (1954)
Best SF 2 (1956)
Spectrum (1962)
Best SF 5 (1963)
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963)
A Chamber of Horrors (1965)
An ABC of Science Fiction (1966)
Tomorrow's Children (1966)
Time Untamed (1967)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1 (1970)
Astounding (1973)
     aka The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two B (1973)
Space 1 (1973)
Creatures from Beyond (1975)
Roots of Evil (1976)
     aka Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
The Infinite Arena (1977)
Dark Forces (1980)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 (1981)
The Great SF Stories 6: 1944 (1981)
Nebula Award Stories 16 (1982)
Robots (1988)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Dinosaurs II (1995)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Immortals (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
     aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The SFWA Grand Masters (1999)

Short stories

	Hermit of Mars (1939)
	Madness from Mars (1939)
	Masquerade (1941)
	The Street That Wasn't There (1941) (with Carl Jacobi)
	Hunch (1943)
	City [short story] (1944)
	Desertion (1944)
	Huddling Place (1944)
	Mr Meek Plays Polo (1944)
	Eternity Lost (1949)
	Limiting Factor (1949)
	Skirmish [short story] (1950)
	Good Night, Mr James (1951)
	You'll Never Go Home Again (1951)
	Worrywart (1953)
	The Fence (1954)
	How-2 (1954)
	Neighbor (1954)
	Green Thumb (1956)
	The Big Front Yard (1958)		Hugo
	The Civilisation Game [short story] (1958)
	A Death In the House (1959)
	No Life of Their Own (1959)
	Horrible Example (1961)
	Over the River and Through the Woods [short story] (1965)
	Over the River and Through the Trees (1965)		Nebula (nominee)
	Small Deer (1965)
	Buckets of Diamonds (1969)
	The Thing in the Stone (1970)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Autumn Land [short story] (1971)		Hugo (nominee)
	Construction Shack (1973)
	Epilog (1973)
	The Ghost of a Model T (1975)
	Grotto of the Dancing Deer (1980)		Nebula Hugo
	The Whistling Well (1980)
	...And the Truth Shall Make You Free
	The Answers

Awards

	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1959) : The Big Front Yard
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1962) : Time Is the Simplest Thing
	Hugo Best Novel winner (1964) : Way Station
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1966) : Over the River and Through the Trees
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1966) : All Flesh Is Grass
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1969) : The Goblin Reservation
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1971) : The Thing in the Stone
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1971) : The Thing in the Stone
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1972) : The Autumn Land [short story]
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1973) : A Choice of Gods
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1981) : Grotto of the Dancing Deer
	Nebula Best Short story winner (1981) : Grotto of the Dancing Deer
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1982) : Project Pope

Books about Clifford D Simak

Clifford D. Simak (1991) by Phil Stephensen-Payne

Clifford D Simak recommends

Three Deaths Of Jeremy Case (2002)
Gene DeWeese
"...a classic example of excellent science fiction."

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