Clifford Simak - Definition and Overview

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 - April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction author. He won several Hugo and Nebula awards, including the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1976. He was born in Millville, Wisconson. He attended the University of Wisconsin and later worked with various newspapers. He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Science fiction books

• The Creator (1946)
• Cosmic Engineers (1950)
• Empire (1951)
• Time and Again (1951)
• City (1952)
• Ring Around the Sun (1953)
• Time is the Simplest Thing (1961)
• The Trouble With Tycho (1961)
• They Walked Like Men (1962)
• Way Station (1963)
• All Flesh Is Grass (1965)
• 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)
• Cemetery World (1973)
• Our Children's Children (1974)
• Enchanted Pilgramage (1975)
• Shakespeare's Planet (1976)
• A Heritage of Stars (1977)
• 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

• Strangers in the Universe (1956)
• The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960)
• All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories (1962)
• Other Worlds of Clifford Simak (1962)
• Worlds Without End (1964)
• Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford Simak (1967
• So Bright the Vision (Editor) (1968)
• Nebula Award Stories #6 (1971)
• The Best of Clifford D. Simak 1 (1975)
• Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
• Brother And Other Stories (1986)
• The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories (1986)
• Over the River & Through the Woods : The Best Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1996)
• Civilization Game and Other Stories (1997)

Non-fiction

• The Solar System: Our New Front Yard (1962)
• Trilobite, Dinosaur, and Man: The Earth's Story (Editor) (1965)
• From Atoms to Infinity: Readings in Modern Science (1965)
• Wonder and Glory: The Story of the Universe (1969)
• Prehistoric Man: The Story of Man's Rise to Civilization (Editor) (1971)
• The March of Science (1971)

Awards

• Hugo award for best novelette (1959) The Big Front Yard
• Hugo award for best novel (1964) Way Station
• Hugo award for best short story (1981) Grotto of the Dancing Deer
• Nebula award for best short story (1980) Grotto of the Dancing Deer

External Links

• Clifford D. Simak (http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~vpetr/Simak1.htm)