Clifford Donald Simak An Affectionate Appreciation

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Clifford Donald Simak An Affectionate Appreciation

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Author : Francis Lyall
language : en
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-17

Clifford Donald Simak An Affectionate Appreciation written by Francis Lyall and has been published by Paragon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A professional newspaperman, Clifford Donald Simak was a major figure both in and beyond the ‘Golden Age’ of science fiction. Active for more than fifty years, he published some 140 short stories and (depending on how you count) at least 27 novels. The many Awards he received – three Hugos, a Nebula, a Jupiter, a Locus, an Analog, and an International Fantasy Award – to say nothing of many nominations, show that his contemporaries recognised his qualities. It is no surprise that the Science Fiction Writers of America elected him as their third SWFA Grand Master. This book considers what he achieved. CDS grew up in Grant County, Wisconsin, just south of where the Wisconsin flows into the Mississippi. Many of his tales reflect the ‘Simak country’ of his youth, regularly drawing on the characteristics of the residents of that area. They are high value entertainment. Some are extremely amusing. Others lead you on to explore many ideas: what does it mean to be sentient, to be human, how should/can we cope with technology, has life a purpose, and if so what, and, what about aliens? Francis Lyall, a retired academic lawyer, has been enjoying Simak stories since he was a teenager. Preface 5 Introduction 8 Chapter I Clifford Donald Simak 15 Chapter II Simak Country 40 Chapter III Trees and Houses 68 1. Trees 68 2. Houses 72 Chapter IV Simak Folk 79 1. General 79 2. Dogs 85 3. Names 86 Chapter V Androids, Robots, Aliens and Others 101 1. Androids 101 2. Robots 103 3. Aliens and Others 113 Chapter VI Gadgets, Gates et al. 125 1. Technology 125 2. Time Travel 128 3. Other Worlds 130 4. Parallel and Alternate Worlds 131 5. Access to Worlds: Machines 134 6. Gates and Doors 134 7. Roads and Tunnels 135 8. Other Artificial Aids 135 9. Equations and Longing 136 Chapter VII Of Man 139 1. Mental Powers 139 2. Knowledge and Education 142 3. Multiple Minds 147 4. Mind-swap 148 5. Telepathy and Parakinesis 150 6. Symbiotes 150 Chapter VIII Mysticism and Mistiness 153 1. Dark Tales 153 2. Controllers 157 3. Purpose 158 4. Creator? 159 5. A Journey? 160 6. Helpers and Monitors 164 7. Faith and Truth 169 8. Ethics: Life: Caring 173 Chapter IX An Evaluation 180

Bajan

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Author : Francis Lyall
language : en
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-19

Bajan written by Francis Lyall and has been published by Paragon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with Fiction categories.

Walter Clarke comes to Minton to research in a library collection of 19th century glass-plate photographs. The evening he arrives he is invited to a party for bajans. He knows not why, but a party is a party. There he meets a variety of people, including a couple who leave following a guide. From a window he observes them gallop off into a landscape that cannot lie within the city. Later, while reviewing the library’s holdings he finds a similar scene. Puzzled, and as a result careless of time, he finds himself locked in the library basement. He tries a fire door and falls onto a riverbank, where, to his confusion, a mail-box directs him to catch up with the others. What others? Along the way he finds accommodation has been arranged for him at a series of inns, but is unsettled by their strange architecture. He is commissioned to help protect the new earth he has been taken to from unauthorized intruders. As he travels he is captured by an indigenous group, hunted, aided by some and hindered by others, comes across some strange steles, and sees an enigmatic ritual. He does find congenial companions, but will he have enough time? In the ancient Scottish universities a bajan is a first-year student …

All Flesh Is Grass

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Author : Clifford D. Simak
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29

All Flesh Is Grass written by Clifford D. Simak and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Fiction categories.

A mysterious invisible barrier suddenly enclose a small, out-of-the-way American township. The agency is a galactic intelligence intent on imposing harmony and co-operation on all peoples - but fear of the unknown reduces man to the most illogical behaviour.

Way Station

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Author : Clifford D. Simak
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-07-21

Way Station written by Clifford D. Simak and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-21 with Fiction categories.

Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors—and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch’s eyes to humanity’s impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that “to read science-fiction is to read Simak.”

The Visitors

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Author : Clifford D. Simak
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2023-07-04

The Visitors written by Clifford D. Simak and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with Fiction categories.

An enormous, mysterious box descends upon smalltown Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master. Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box—about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long—and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it—and quickly pays for it with his life. Around the country, people scramble to determine what exactly the box is. Is it a machine? Or maybe a sentient being? What does it want? They have no way of knowing. Jerry, meanwhile, has firsthand knowledge after the visitor abducts him. Then, just as he discovers it is a living, intelligent creature, it releases him into the darkness of night. As Jerry searches for a way back to civilization, more visitors descend upon Earth. They seem harmless enough. Then they begin eating trees, and that’s only the beginning . . . Praise for The Visitors “One of the most engaging novels of alien invasion ever written.” —Library Journal

Reflections And Refractions

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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-28

Reflections And Refractions written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-28 with Fiction categories.

Nearly twenty years ago Robert Silverberg began writing a monthly column of opinion and commentary, for Galileo Magazine, Amazing Stories, and then for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Now he has chosen the liveliest and most relevant of his hundreds of magazine columns for the present collection. They constitute a vivid chronicle of events both in science fiction and the world in general over the past two decades. Robert Silverberg is one of the great veterans of fantasy and science fiction. During the course of a career that has now stretched across more than forty years, he has written dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them considered classics of the genre. He has won more major award nominations than any other writer in his field, and no less than nine Hugo and Nebula awards, the key s-f/fantasy trophies. His books have been translated into some eighteen languages and his short stories have appeared in every science-fiction and fantasy magazine in the world, as well as in Omni, Playboy, and Penthouse.

Luna Monthly

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Luna Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Science fiction categories.

The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No 1

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Author : Clifford D. Simak
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-03-10

The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No 1 written by Clifford D. Simak and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Fiction categories.

The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 brings you ten full novels, and more than 1,500 pages of awe inspiring fiction. These are the novelists who shaped the field. Collectively these authors have won thirteen Hugo awards and four Nebula awards, while six of them have been named Grand Masters by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Collected here are: 'Empire' by Clifford D. Simak; 'Falcons of Narabedla' by Marion Zimmer Bradley; 'The Green Odyssey' by Philip José Farmer; 'The Stars, My Brothers' by Edmond Hamilton; 'The Time Traders' by Andre Norton; 'Deathworld' by Harry Harrison; 'Star Surgeon' by Alan E. Nourse; 'A Voyage to Arcturus' by David Lindsay; 'Preferred Risk' by Frederik Pohl & Lester del Rey; 'Space Tug' by Murray Leinster.

On Cassette

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

On Cassette written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Audiotapes categories.

Words On Cassette

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Words On Cassette written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Audiobooks categories.