Um livro intrigante, inquietante ao inverter as premissas humanistas da FC clássica. Em City, Simak entrega o planeta aos cães, num sentido muito literal. As espécies caninas vão-se tornar na forma dominante de vida inteligente numa Terra abandonada pelos humanos, partidos em busca de paraísos re...
A highly entertaining read. Simak's voice and outright command of language and imagery are superb. He puts unimaginable concepts into words that elucidate even as they mystify. His nods towards philosophy and the frequent humor are welcome amongst the prevailing typical sci-fi prose. [SLIGHT SPOI...
With a title like Project Pope, I was expecting Simak to craft an intriguing science fiction tale. Certainly, in the end there are some very interesting aspects that the author broaches. However, I was quite disappointed that there wasn't a substantial, in-depth discussion on any religious princi...
More than once, I have read an author's most celebrated work only to consider it their weakest. At the same time, I understood why it attained its popularity. Simak's Way Station is unfortunately another such book. It starts off with a typically imaginative scenario by the science fiction grea...
What and odd and strange little story!At times it came off as the easiest young-adult fantasy/fiction, but then the moments of sexual tension and cursing recalled that it indeed was something other.Some parts seem choppy between sequences, and really only one section seemed to drag a little too l...
Да наложиш мир и хармония на човечеството не е лесна работа – дори за чуждогалактическа форма на интелигентност, която изолира затънтеното градче Милвил от проблемния свят наоколо с невидима сферична бариера в романа. Тази година се навършват 50 години от издаването на емблематичния (и за Саймък,...
A lone man trapped on an alien planet2 May 2012tI have been reading over some of the old science-fiction short stories that I wrote probably about 10 to 15 years ago (and no, they are not published, thank God) and I must admit that these stories are far inferior to some of the science-fiction tha...
Clifford D. Simak was named the third winner of the Grand Master of Science Fiction, just after Robert Heinlein and Jack Williamson and he also won several Hugos and a Nebula as well as being named as one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. If writing aw...
The standard son of nobility who is a generally decent guy, a large sidekick who likes to bash in bad guy heads leave on a quest in medieval 1970's England? Some interesting characters join the quest, including a fearful ghost, a banshee, a demon kicked out of hell.... The quest was somewhat po...
What begins, well, after a bit of exposition, as a classic survivalist tale ends up as a puzzle concerning alien intervention (perhaps, a deus ex machina and time-travel. At times, Cemetery World seems to be a cautionary morality tale about corporate greed and the futility of warfare (indeed, a ...
This is my very first Science Fiction book. I have read it many years ago I absolutely loved it. I don't know will I like it so much if I read it know - after all the others sci-fi books I have read. But it's the book, which provoked my interest for this genre.Това е първа фантастична книга, коят...
"The time trails led him to mastodons, money and the most amazing mystery of all: time." Published as Catface in the UK. A cat-faced alien stranded in drift-free Wisconsin befriends locals and time-engineers portals into prehistoric epochs, where they establish a new nation: Mastodonia
The Planet beckoned them from space--& closed round them like a venus Fly Trap! Captain Mike Ross finds himself leading an interplanetary expedition to an anonymous planet that welcomes them with a homing beam & then seals shut around them. Their ship is sealed against them & they are hurled into...
Then they had departed.Now the sturdy little space-yacht, Comet, was towing the great ship out into space, 500,000 miles beyond the orbit of the Moon. Slowly the hull was being taken farther and farther away from possible discovery.Work on the installation of the apparatus had started almost as s...
"Ash. Oh, Ash. Wake up." To Sutton's ears came the muted mutter of the coasting rockets, the hollow, thrumming sound of a small ship hurtling through space. "Johnny," said Sutton's mind. "We're in a ship, Ash." "How many are there?" "The android and...
The great arm, responding to unleashed tension, swung up swiftly, hurling the boulder that lay in the cup against the wall. Against the wall, but not flying over it. At the impact of the boulder, the wall rang like the clanging of a mighty bell. The boulder came tumbling down the slope from which...
There are many stories of certain personalities who possess these abilities, some of them surpassing all belief, although as to the truth of them, there is none to say. On the shelves at this university is an extensive literature on the possibilities of the paranormal and, in fact, some case hist...
My body needed sleep, but my brain cried out against it. I sank close to the edge of it, but never seemed quite able to drop off into it. A parade went marching through my brain and there was no end to it and no reason, either. It was not really thinking, for I was too played out to think. I had ...
He wrote: Third Lede Monster WASHINGTON, D.C. (Global)—An alien beast is loose on the Earth tonight. No one knows where it is. It came out of a time tunnel in Virginia and disappeared after killing the crew of an artillery piece posted in front of the tunnel, placed to prevent the very thing that...
was purchased by Astounding Science Fiction early in 1941; they paid Cliff seventy-five dollars and published the story in July 1941. It is one of the many Simak stories that features a newspaperman protagonist, and it displays a bit of the culture of the era, which often included, among other th...
This story, as is often the case with Simak stories, provides new takes on themes Cliff touched on elsewhere, but I keep thinking that it’s a story about life after life. And it’s sad, for the line “You were so badly made” has more than a single meaning. ...
may be the culmination of the list of second thoughts Clifford D. Simak had about the concept of immortality. And it makes suicide look like a good idea, if only one could do it. … —dww You did not die. There was no normal way to die. You lived as c...
Simak and Carl Jacobi For a man who grew up wanting to write, and who turned to journalism with enthusiasm for the glamor and idealism he saw in the way the profession was portrayed during the early part of the twentieth century, Clifford D. Simak appears to have been rather reluctant to work wit...
but it was published, in the September 1944 issue of New Western Magazine, under a new title … and these days it’s likely that many readers will miss the play on words in the new title. If you’ve read a few Westerns, you probably know that “hot lead” is a euphemism for a gunfight – but the protag...