![]() He won the Nebula and multiple Hugo Awards, and in 1977 was the third writer to be named a Grand Master by SFWA. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. Simak was a regular contributor to Astounding throughout the Golden Age, producing a body of well regarded work. Campbell's Astounding Stories began to rejuvenate the field in 1937. Reading him as a child, I learned from him the importance of tolerance and inclusiveness. He wrote of love for all living things, of respect for life and of acceptance both of the supreme importance of life and of the inevitable differences between living things. ![]() In the mid-1940s, when he began to publish the episodes that would be assembled as City in 1952, Clifford Simak, a. Clifford Simak was a newspaper man and an author. ![]() He flirted briefly with science fiction in the early '30s but did not start to write seriously until John W. But they still entrance us, the old page-turners from the glory days of American SF, half a century or so ago, when the world was full of futures we were never going to have. He attended the University of Wisconsin and spent his working life in the newspaper business. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world.Ĭlifford Donald Simak was born in Wisconsin, in 1904. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. 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.īut nothing comes without a cost. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars. ![]()
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