Today, August 3, is Clifford D. Simak’s birthday. Simak (1904-1988) is a favorite in these here parts. It’s been a long day, It’s late, and I’m tired. I’ll raise a glass in his memory shortly, but I’m not going to do a full post tonight. The computer keeps freezing up for a few seconds at […]
The Ghost of a Model T Clifford D. Simak Open Road Media print $21.99 ebook $7.99 Open Road Media publishes a lot of great science fiction and fantasy, and I mean A LOT. Much of it is from classic authors who have fallen out of print or writers who are still active and have an […]
“All the Traps of Earth” Clifford D. Simak Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1960 Currently available in I am Crying All Inside: The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Volume One and Space Pioneers edited by Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio Today, August 3, would have been Clifford […]
The Big Front Yard Clifford D. Simak Open Road Print $15.99 ($10.87 as of this writing) Ebook $7.99 ($4.80 as of this writing) “The Big Front Yard” was originally published in the October 1958 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It won the Hugo for Best Novelette the next year. This is one of Simak’s best […]
Grotto of the Dancing Deer Clifford D. Simak Open Road ebook $4.99 Yesterday was Cliff Simak’s birthday. I read the first two stories in this collection to honor his memory and his work. Grotto of the Dancing Deer is volume four of The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak. There is no print edition. […]
Cifford D. Simak was born on this date, August 3, in 1904. He passed away in April of 1988. Simak was one of the great science fiction writers of the Twentieth Century. Among his awards were three Hugos (“The Big Front Yard”, Way Station, “Grotto of the Dancing Deer”) and a Nebula (“Grotto of the […]
Next year will mark the 90th anniversary of Astounding Science Fiction, known these days as Analog. To mark the occasion, editor Trevor Quachri will be reprinting one story from each decade, starting with the 1940s and going through the 1990s. Anything later than the nineties, Quachri says, is too recent. More time will be needed […]
Our Children’s Children Clifford D. Simak Ebook $9.99 It’s been a little while since I posted about Simak here, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t read any more of his work. I’ve just been slammed with work and haven’t had a chance to post. I’ve got at least one more Simak post coming up. This […]
Over the last few years, Nightshade Books has published four volumes of an anthology series titled Eclipse, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Now that series is going online, with new stories published on the second and fourth Mondays of every month. (The press release says first and fourth, but an email from the editor to me […]