Clifford Donald Simak An Affectionate Appreciation

Author : Francis Lyall
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782227304

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Clifford Donald Simak – An Affectionate Appreciation by Francis Lyall Pdf

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

Author : Francis Lyall
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782227342

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Bajan by Francis Lyall Pdf

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 …

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575122604

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The Visitors by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

What looked like a big black box - perhaps fifty feet high, two hundred long - had settled squarely on Jerry Conklin's car. The townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota, were the first to see it - and one of them was the first and only human to shoot at it. He paid for his rashness with instant death. Within hours the public knew something strange had happened and was beginning to face the incredible possibility that the Earth harboured something from outer space. A machine? An intelligent being? There was no way to know. But Jerry Conklin knew. The Visitor had scooped him up, held him prisoner for several hours, then let him go. Jerry knew the Visitor was a living intelligent creature!

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504013246

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All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

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.

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504013208

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Way Station by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

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.”

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575106741

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Reflections and Refractions by Robert Silverberg Pdf

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.

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380505754

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Why Call Them Back from Heaven? by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015067501398

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Luna Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1792 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : UOM:39015010366261

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On Cassette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2020 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : UOM:39015064549358

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Words on Cassette by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Pringle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015002922384

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The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction by David Pringle Pdf

For every science fiction fan, Pringle has compiled descriptions, reviews, and ratings of more than 3,000 science fiction books. Includes a unique rating system, brief statements and reviews by critics, and a guide to sequels, related titles, and film versions.

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575122420

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All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

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.

Author : Robert M. Jarvis,Paul R. Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015045696161

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Prime Time Law by Robert M. Jarvis,Paul R. Joseph Pdf

Presents an in-depth survey of how lawyers are portrayed in television dramas and comedies. Spanning five decades, 18 contributions refer to about 350 shows (both the famous and the obscure) as well as to more general topics such as science fiction, situation comedies, soap operas, westerns, and lawyers who are female and/or young. The volume features a foreword by the legal advisor to the shows L.A. Law and Paper Chase. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350244702

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Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Pdf

It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. Superstition makes things work in the Discworld, and undermining it can have consequences. It's just not right to find Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say 'Ho Ho Ho...' It's the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, gothic governess and Death's granddaughter (sort of), doesn't sort everything out by morning, there won't be a morning. Ever again... Adapted by Terry Pratchett's long-time collaborator Stephen Briggs, this play text version of Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novel Hogfather wittily and faithfully reimagines the story for the stage.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079755214

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf