During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some
of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in
1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a
small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of
the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare
time.
Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the
horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way
Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International
Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards
and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his
death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the
Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime
Achievement.
“One of those complex and enormously inventive
stories . . . based on some real, honest,
practical ethical thinking. It is an idea book.” —Galaxy Science
Fiction
Praise for Clifford D. Simak
“To read science fiction is to read Simak. The reader who does not
like Simak stories does not like science fiction at all.” —Robert
A. Heinlein
“One of the best-loved authors in SF.” —Publishers Weekly
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