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Empire (Hardcover)
Clifford D. Simak
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City (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
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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?
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
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Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
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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.
A telepath acquires a powerful alien consciousness-and must run to
escape corporate assassins and angry mobs-in this novel by the
author of Way Station. Space travel has been abandoned in the
twenty-second century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and
inconvenient-and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the
monopoly on interstellar exploration for commercial gain. Their
secret is the use of "parries," human beings with the remarkable
telepathic ability to expand their minds throughout the universe.
On what should have been a routine assignment, however, loyal
Fishhook employee Shepherd Blaine is inadvertently implanted with a
copy of an alien consciousness, becoming something more than human.
Now he's a company pariah, forced to flee the safe confines of the
Fishhook complex. But the world he escapes into is not a safe
sanctuary; Its people have been taught to hate and fear his
parapsychological gift-and there is nowhere on Earth, or elsewhere,
for Shepherd Blaine to hide. A Hugo Award nominee, Time Is the
Simplest Thing showcases the enormous talents of one of the true
greats of twentieth-century science fiction. This richly imagined
tale of prejudice, corporate greed, oppression, and, ultimately,
transcendence stands tall among Simak's most enduring works.
The Anthology of Sci-Fi V21 is a collection of eleven Sci-fi
stories from some of the best writers of the past century. Included
are: Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson, The Space Rover by Edwin
K. Sloat, The Einstein See-Saw by Miles J. Breuer, Hellhounds of
the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak, Raiders of the Universes by Donald
Wandrei, Loot of the Void by Edwin K. Sloat, The Moon Destroyers by
Monroe K. Ruch, The Martian by Allen Glasser & A. Rowley
Hilliard, The Floating Island of Madness by Jason Kirby, The
Worshippers by Damon Knight, Special Delivery by Damon Knight.
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Way Station (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
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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."
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Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
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Empire (Paperback)
Clifford D. Simak
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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