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City (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak City (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R314 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?

They Walked Like Men (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak They Walked Like Men (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R479 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A reporter uncovers a terrifying conspiracy, in this thrilling classic from a Science Fiction Grand Master. After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely misses a bear trap sitting on his doorstep. Then, the object transforms into what looks like a bowling ball and rolls off into the night all by itself. He begins to obsess over the question--Who put the trap there? And why? The following day, there is strange news floating around at the newspaper office. Someone with limitless funds is buying up hundreds of homes and businesses, only to close them up and tear them down. People are running out of places to live and to work. Suddenly, Parker finds himself in the middle of a story nobody will believe . . . Aliens? Dolls that walk like people? Talking dogs? With a little help from a fellow reporter and an unusual visitor, Parker just might be able to put a stop to this mess--if he survives. "Some surprising jolts of violence and mayhem and a goodly dollop of cosmic paranoia." --Fantasy Literature

Second Childhood (Hardcover): Clifford D. Simak Second Childhood (Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Project Mastodon (Hardcover): Clifford D. Simak Project Mastodon (Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Choice of Gods (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak A Choice of Gods (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R451 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R52 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on an abandoned Earth in this novel by the Nebula Award-winning author of Way Station. What if you woke up one morning on Earth . . . and no one else was there? That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans, including Jason Whitney, his wife Martha, and the remnants of a tribe of Native Americans in the year 2135. Their inexplicable abandonment had unexpected benefits: the eventual development of mental telepathy and other extrasensory powers, inner peace, and best of all, near-immortality. Now, five thousand years later, most of the remaining humans live a tranquil, pastoral life, leaving technological and religious exploration to the masses of robot servants who no longer have humans to serve. But the unexpected reappearance of Jason's brother, who had teleported to the stars many years before, threatens to change everything yet again--for John Whitney is the bearer of startling information about where Earth's population went and why--and the most disturbing news of all: They may finally be coming home again. Nominated for the Hugo Award when it first appeared in print more than forty years ago, Clifford D. Simak's brilliant and thought-provoking A Choice of Gods has lost nothing of its power to astonish and intrigue. A masterwork of speculative fiction, intelligent and ingenious, it is classic Simak, standing tall among the very best science fiction that has ever been written.

The Goblin Reservation (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak The Goblin Reservation (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R453 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R52 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, an interstellar adventure of aliens, fairies, and time travel. Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine his chagrin when he turns up at a Wisconsin matter transmission station several weeks later and discovers he's not only dead but unemployed. During an interstellar mission to investigate rumors of dragon activity, this alternate Maxwell was intercepted by a strange alien race that wanted him to carry knowledge of a remarkable technology back to Earth, and it seems someone does not want the information shared. Suddenly, it's essential for Maxwell to find his own killer. He enlists the aid of Carol Hampton of the Time College, along with her pet saber-tooth tiger, a ghost with memory issues, and the intelligent Neanderthal Man recently rescued from a prehistoric cooking pot. But the search is pointing them toward the goblins, fairies, and assorted Little Folk living in reservations on campus, and into the dangerous heart of an interspecies blood feud that has been raging for millions of years. Ingeniously inventive and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek, this novel demonstrates multi-award-winning fantasy and science fiction favorite Clifford D. Simak operating at the imaginative peak of his considerable powers.

Way Station (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Way Station (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R508 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R57 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

Empire (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Empire (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Empire (Hardcover): Clifford D. Simak Empire (Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Message from Mars (Hardcover): Clifford D. Simak Message from Mars (Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Message from Mars (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Message from Mars (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Galaxy_Novel_Number_07_Empire_ (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Galaxy_Novel_Number_07_Empire_ (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950 (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950 (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unknown Guests - Three Alien Contact Stories: Empire, The World That Couldn't Be, Hellhounds of the Cosmos (Paperback):... Unknown Guests - Three Alien Contact Stories: Empire, The World That Couldn't Be, Hellhounds of the Cosmos (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak, Gaughan
R221 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R21 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Empire (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R179 R161 Discovery Miles 1 610 Save R18 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Time Hole - Time Travel Stories by Clifford D. Simak: Project Mastodon, Second Childhood (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Time Hole - Time Travel Stories by Clifford D. Simak: Project Mastodon, Second Childhood (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R140 R125 Discovery Miles 1 250 Save R15 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The World That Couldn't Be (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak, Gaughan The World That Couldn't Be (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak, Gaughan
R133 R118 Discovery Miles 1 180 Save R15 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
City (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak City (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak; Introduction by David W. Wixon
R592 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R66 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers. Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city--first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion--leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never return. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man." In the Golden Age of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak's writing blazed as brightly as anyone's in the science fiction firmament. Winner of the International Fantasy Award, City is a magnificent literary metropolis filled with an astonishing array of interlinked stories and structures--at once dystopian, transcendent, compassionate, and visionary.

Time and Again (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Time and Again (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R588 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R66 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After two decades in space, a man returns to Earth as something new and not completely human, in this "enormously inventive" novel by a Nebula Award winner (Galaxy Science Fiction). Twenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having impossibly survived catastrophic damage to his spacecraft. But the star-traveler is not the same man he was when he began his journey two decades earlier. He is, in fact, no longer completely human. And he is not alone. But he has a message to convey that could have reality-altering consequences for the human galaxy-conquerors who consider themselves almost gods, and for the nearly human androids they create, enslave, and oppress. It is Asher's destiny to change everything. His mission has made him a hero to some, a pariah to others--and a target for determined time-traveling assassins from the future whose mission it is to silence him at all costs before everything they cherish is obliterated. A true science fiction visionary, SFWA Grand Master Clifford D. Simak infused thrilling stories of time travel, space exploration, artificial intelligence, and alien contact with powerful, thought-provoking ideas. An enthralling masterwork of speculative fiction that astonishes while exploring humanity in all its disparate aspects, Time and Again can be counted among the prolific, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author's most brilliantly imagined and successfully realized creations.

The Werewolf Principle (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak The Werewolf Principle (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R454 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R51 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

His body hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac space traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth Many centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported back to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does not recognize--a world of flying cars and sentient floating houses--with no memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But he has not returned alone. The last survivor of a radical experiment abandoned more than a century earlier, Blake was genetically altered to be able to adapt to extreme alien environments, and now he can sense other presences inhabiting his mind and body. One is a biological computer of astonishing power; the other is a powerful creature akin to a large wolf. And Blake is definitely not the one in control. With his sanity hanging in the balance, Blake's only option is to set out in frantic pursuit of his past, the truth, his destiny--and quite possibly the fate of humankind. A bravura demonstration of unparalleled imagination, intelligence, and heart, The Werewolf Principle addresses weighty issues of genetic manipulation that are as relevant today as when the novel first appeared in print. One of the all-time best and brightest in speculative fiction, Grand Master Clifford D. Simak offers a moving, stunning, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human.

All Flesh Is Grass (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak All Flesh Is Grass (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R541 R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Save R59 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Long before Under the Dome, this novel of a town trapped within an invisible force field earned a Nebula Award nomination for the author of Way Station. Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community--until the day Brad Carter discovers he is unable to leave. And the nearly bankrupt real estate agent is not the only one being held prisoner; every resident is confined within the town's boundaries by an invisible force field that cannot be breached. As local tensions rapidly reach breaking point, a set of bizarre circumstances leads Brad to the source of their captivity, making him humanity's reluctant ambassador to an alien race of sentient flora, and privy to these jailers' ultimate intentions. But some of Millville's most powerful citizens do not take kindly to Carter's "collaboration with the enemy," even under the sudden threat of global apocalypse. Decades before Stephen King trapped an entire town in Under the Dome, science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak explored the shocking effects of communal captivity on an unsuspecting population. Nominated for the Nebula Award, All Flesh Is Grass is a riveting masterwork that brilliantly reinvents the alien invasion story.

Special Deliverance (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Special Deliverance (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R508 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R58 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From a Nebula and Hugo award winner, "one the best-loved authors in SF" A tale of humans and one robot navigating an alien puzzle-world (Publishers Weekly). Following a conversation with a talking slot machine, Professor Edward Lansing finds himself mysteriously transported to a tavern on a long and empty road. It is immediately obvious to the educator that he is no longer on campus--or even Earth--and that he is not alone. Lansing's new companions--a female engineer, a military officer, a humorless priest, a poetess, and a robot named Jurgens--all hail from separate alternate realities and share Lansing's confusion. What is clear, however, is that they must continue down the road together, encountering a series of bizarre sights, dangerous obstacles, and perplexing puzzles along the way: an abandoned, decaying city; a set of doorways; a large blue cube; a tower that sings. Soon it is apparent they are all being tested for some eerie, inexplicable reason, and the choices each must make will determine his or her future. For those who fail, the alien trail will never be seen again. A provocative science fiction allegory, Special Deliverance is Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Clifford D. Simak's Pilgrim's Progress--a tale of great trials and hidden agendas that expose the foibles of humanity and a fantastic exploration of the human condition. A science fiction classic brimming with intelligence, invention, and wonder, it is yet another extraordinary creation from one of the genre's most revered grandmasters.

Highway of Eternity (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Highway of Eternity (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R639 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R72 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Two present-day investigators race across time to escape malevolent aliens from the future and their terrible "gift" of immortality in this novel by a Nebula Award-winning author. What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is about to learn the answer when his investigation into an inexplicable disappearance carries him and journalist friend Tom Boone hundreds of years into the past. Corcoran and Boone's powerful extrasensory abilities lead them to an advanced transportation system through time, and back to the bucolic eighteenth-century English countryside. There, they discover a family from the distant future hiding from the Immortals--an alien race that, many centuries on, is seducing human subjects with the promise of eternal life. But at the cost of the corporeal self, there is no place in the aliens' future for anyone unwilling to exist as mind alone. Now that the Evans family's sanctuary has been breached, escape is the only answer--for Boone and Corcoran as well--and the only way out is forward . . . far forward. But racing through space and time can be a hazardous occupation, especially with monstrous beasts, killer robots, and Immortal body-destroyers waiting at every juncture. The last novel from acclaimed science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and numerous other awards, Highway of Eternity combines breathtaking action with provocative ideas and unparalleled ingenuity, the hallmarks of Simak's exceptional art. It is a fitting finale for the man who stands alongside Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke as one of the true giants of speculative fiction's Golden Age.

Enchanted Pilgrimage (Paperback): Clifford D. Simak Enchanted Pilgrimage (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
R510 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R57 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A scholar, a goblin, and a gnome, among others, pursue the secrets of a vanished ancient race through a wasteland of dark magic in this enthralling fantasy quest adventure On an Earth that is different from ours, the young scholar Mark Cornwall becomes a target of the Inquisition, and specifically its most evil and obsessed agent, Beckett. Damned for asking questions, Mark is forced to escape over the border into the Wastelands, a magical realm that is home to all manner of flesh-devouring monsters. Luckily he will not have to make his journey alone. He is accompanied by a cadre of stalwart companions, including the rafter goblin Oliver, Snively the gnome, and secretive Mary from one of three parallel planes. Somewhere beyond the vengeful, blood-hungry Hellhounds, somewhere past the horrific legacy of the now-destroyed Chaos Beast, the mysteries of the Old Ones are waiting to be revealed--and only those with the courage to seek them will be able to alter the destiny of their worlds. In Enchanted Pilgrimage, Clifford D. Simak ingeniously blends elements of science fiction into a savory fantasy stew. The award-winning Grand Master of science fiction spreads his wings and takes glorious flight into a bold new realm of magic and adventure, demonstrating why he remains one of the most acclaimed storytellers in the literature of the remarkable.

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