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 a time, and I don’t have the patience to reboot it.
I’ve got a post in mind and will get it up in a few days.
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 short novel was published in 1974 after being serialized in Worlds of If. Like much of Simak’s work, it involves time travel.
The plot is fairly straightforward. Doorways open up all over the world, and people start pouring out of them. The spokesman for the newcomers tells the President that they are refugees from 500 years in the future. They are fleeing an alien invasion. Continue reading
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 extensive backlist.
One of my favorite authors is Clifford D. Simak. Open Road has published a twelve volume set of his complete short fiction. They’ve also reprinted a number of his novels (although I’m still waiting for The Visitors).
Simak’s birthday was a week or so ago, and I did a post on it. I decided after rereading “All the Traps of Earth” that I would read some more of his work. In honor of Simak’s birthday, F&SF tweeted that his story “The Autumn Land”, which they had published back in October of 1971 had been shortlisted for the Nebula Award. So I decided to start with that on, which is one of the stories in The Ghost of a Model T. And I ended up reading the whole collection. Continue reading