Clifford D. Simak
Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.
The Street That Wasn't There
As a deadly sickness sweeps the world, a man's reality crumbles around him, forcing him to confront the terrifying possibility that he's the only one left to remember it.
By Clifford D. Simak
The Shipshape Miracle
Stranded on a desolate planet, a castaway discovers that salvation might mean losing himself to the eerie embrace of a living spaceship seeking a new consciousness to join its own.
By Clifford D. Simak
Second Childhood
A timeless man, burdened by immortality, seeks to recapture the lost innocence of youth by creating a fantastical retreat from the weight of his endless existence.
By Clifford D. Simak
Mr. Meek—Musketeer
A timid bookkeeper's desire for adventure leads him to a dangerous asteroid city, where he becomes a reluctant hero and uncovers alien secrets.
By Clifford D. Simak
Empire
In a future of political unrest and technological advancement, one man's ambition threatens to control it all unless a silenced dissenter can expose the truth.
By Clifford D. Simak
Message From Mars
** When a perilous journey uncovers stranded Earthmen and a silent invasion, a desperate warning may come too late to save humankind.
By Clifford D. Simak
Project Mastodon
When a group of men travel back in time to start a new nation in the Pleistocene era, they must confront prehistoric creatures and face conflicts as they struggle to survive, gain recognition, and define their purpose.
By Clifford D. Simak
Mr. Meek Plays Polo
A quiet accountant winds up coaching a ragtag team in an interstellar polo match where the fate of warring space factions hangs in the balance.
By Clifford D. Simak
The World That Couldn't Be
On a distant world, a desperate farmer must make a momentous decision: destroy a powerful, intelligent creature threatening his livelihood or forge an uneasy peace preserving the balance of a strange ecosystem.
By Clifford D. Simak
The call from beyond
Fleeing Earth for a new life, one man discovers a horrifying plot to reshape humanity through twisted science on a distant, icy world.
By Clifford D. Simak
Hellhounds of the Cosmos
When Earth faces destruction by mysterious invaders, a group of humans transforms into beings of another dimension to confront the enemy in a battle for survival.
By Clifford D. Simak