Hellhounds of the Cosmos

Clifford D. Simak spent most of his professional career working in Minnesota for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, but nowadays he's remembered mostly for his science fiction writing -- novels like Mastodonia (1978), The Visitors (1980), Project Pope (1981), Where the Evil Dwells (1982), Special Deliverance (1982), Highway of Eternity (1986). But Simak had a long, long career -- as witness this story, which first saw print in 1932, when Simak was 28. You can see that Simak grew a great deal as a writer over his lifetime -- or perhaps the original editor had at it a bit too roughly with his blue pencil. But even so -- it's Simak, and it's got a quality that rises over that . . .


Genre: Science Fiction