Clifford D. Simak

Clifford Donald Simak

Birth: 1904-08-03 Death: 1988-04-25 Days since birth: 44,641 Days between birth and death: 30,581 Days since death: 14,060

Highly regarded sci-fi author from the 1930s through 1980s.

Works

Novels

• Cosmic Engineers (1950) - Read 2026. In the 5900s humanity travels the solar system, but not beyond. A small group of humans, including one woman who spent a thousand years in suspended-but-thinking animation, find themselves involved with a superior intelligence (the Engineers) trying to save the universe. Superior, but stagnant so they lack the imagination necessary to find tricky solutions. They do so, and the universe is saved. TWIST: the Engineers and humanity are both different products of an even older civilization that used to live in the solar system before another star slammed into the sun making it uninhabitable for eons.
• Empire (1951)
• Time and Again (1951)
• City (1952) - Read 2017.
• Ring Around the Sun (1953)
• Time is the Simplest Thing (1961) - Read 2019.
• The Trouble with Tycho (1961) - Read 2026. Short, under 100 pages. Somewhat unsuccessful moon prospector in the medium future (at the time of writing anyway) falls into a plan to get valuable salvage from Tycho crater, which people avoid because everyone who goes there ends up missing. Turns out it's the epicenter of some moon lichen found only in that area, along with a big group of "hound dogs", mysterious energy life forms found on the moon. They seem like a remnant of some past visiting civilization, but they only find out so much. Our protagonist and the woman who brought him into the plan get out of the crater and survive, barely.
• They Walked Like Men (1962)
• Way Station (1963) - Read 2016.
• All Flesh Is Grass (1965) - Read 2019.
• Why Call Them Back From Heaven? (1967)
• The Werewolf Principle (1967)
• The Goblin Reservation (1968)
• Out of Their Minds (1970)
• Destiny Doll (1971)
• A Choice of Gods (1972) - Read 2019.
• Cemetery World (1973)
• Our Children's Children (1974)
• Enchanted Pilgrimage (1975)
• Shakespeare's Planet (1976)
• A Heritage of Stars (1977) - Read 2017.
• The Fellowship of the Talisman (1978)
• Mastodonia (1978)
• The Visitors (1980)
• Project Pope (1981)
• Where the Evil Dwells (1982)
• Special Deliverance (1982)
• Highway of Eternity (1986)

Short Stories

Many collections, notably 14 volumes of "The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak"

Links

Wikipedia entry

Wikipedia bibliography