Clifford D. Simak fu un autore di fama di science fiction, noto per la sua produttiva carriera e i numerosi premi ricevuti. Nacque nel 1904 in una fattoria del sud-ovest del Wisconsin e iniziò la sua carriera come giornalista. Simak lavorò in un piccolo giornale prima di diventare caporedattore del Minneapolis Star-Tribune, dove scrisse fiction nel suo tempo libero.
La scrittura di Simak gli valse molti onori nella comunità della science fiction. Fu insignito di tre premi Hugo, un premio Nebula e fu nominato terzo Gran Maestro dall'SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) nel 1977. A questi riconoscimenti si aggiunse il Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement dall'Horror Writers Association. Il suo lavoro non è stato solo riconosciuto dai fan, ma anche dai colleghi, che lo hanno tenuto in grande considerazione.
Lo stile narrativo di Simak era noto per la sua unicità e immaginazione. Il suo libro "City", pubblicato nel 1952, è uno dei suoi lavori più famosi. Il romanzo, che esplora l'idea di un mondo post-apocalittico, vinse il Premio Internazionale Fantasy nel 1953. Altri lavori degni di nota di Simak includono "Way Station", pubblicato nel 1963 e vincitore di un Hugo Award nel 1964. La sua scrittura ha lasciato un'impronta duratura sul genere della science fiction e continua ad essere celebrata oggi.
Romanzi singoli
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Empire
1932
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Cosmic Engineers
1950
3
Time and Again / First He Died
1950
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Ring Around the Sun
1952
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Time is the Simplest Thing / The Fisherman
1961
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Trouble with Tycho
1961
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They Walked Like Men
1962
8
Way Station / Here Gather the Stars
1963
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All Flesh Is Grass
1965
10
The Werewolf Principle
1967
11
Why Call Them Back From Heaven?
1967
12
So Bright the Vision
1968
13
The Goblin Reservation
1968
14
Out of Their Minds
1970
15
Prehistoric Man
1971
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Destiny Doll
1972
17
A Choice of Gods
1972
18
Cemetery World
1972
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Waystation
1973
20
Our Children's Children
1974
21
Enchanted Pilgrimage
1975
22
Shakespeare's Planet
1976
23
A Heritage of Stars
1977
24
The Fellowship of the Talisman
1978
25
Mastodonia / Catface
1978
26
The Visitors
1980
27
Project Pope
1981
28
Where the Evil Dwells
1982
29
Special Deliverance
1982
30
Highway of Eternity
1986
31
Time Quarry
2014
The Complete Short Fiction Of Clifford D. Simak Books
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I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories
2015
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The Big Front Yard and Other Stories
2015
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The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories
2015
4
No Life of Their Own and Other Stories
2016
5
Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories
2016
6
New Folks' Home and Other Stories
2016
7
A Death in the House and Other Stories
2016
8
Good Night, Mr. James and Other Stories
2016
9
Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories
2016
10
The Shipshape Miracle and Other Stories
2017
11
Dusty Zebra and Other Stories
2017
12
The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories
2017
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Hellhounds of the Cosmos
1932
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The Street That Wasn't There
1941
3
Mr. Meek Plays Polo
1944
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Project Mastodon
1955
5
The World That Couldn't Be
1958
6
Eternity Lost
2004
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Spacebred Generations
2009
8
Second Childhood
2016
Collezioni
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City
1952
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The Worlds of Clifford Simak
1954
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Strangers in the Universe
1956
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The Night of the Puudly
1960
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Other Worlds of Clifford Simak
1962
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All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories
1962
7
Aliens for Neighbours
1963
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All the Traps of Earth
1963
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Worlds Without End
1964
10
Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak
1965
11
Over the River and Through the Woods
1965
12
Skirmish
1977
13
The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories
1986
14
Off-Planet
1988
15
Brother and Other Stories
1988
16
The Autumn Land and Other Stories
1990
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Immigrant and Other Stories
1991
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The Creator and Other Stories
1994
19
The Civilisation Game and Other Stories
1997
20
Hellhounds of the Cosmos and Other Tales from the Fourth Dimension
2011
21
Madness From Mars and Other Short Stories
2017
22
The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories
2024
Libri di non-fiction
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The March of Science
1971
The Pulp Writers Books (with Poul Anderson, with Andre Norton, with Alan E. Nourse, with Philip K. Dick, with Mack Reynolds, with Raymond Z. Gallun, with August Derleth, with Hal K. Wells, with Sewell Peaslee Wright, with Arthur Dekker Savage)
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V1
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V2
2013
4
Anthology of Sci-Fi V3
2013
5
Anthology of Sci-Fi V4
2013
6
Anthology of Sci-Fi V5
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V6
2013
8
Anthology of Sci-Fi V7
2013
9
Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers - Alan E. Nourse
2013
10
Anthology of Sci-Fi V8
2013
11
Anthology of Sci-Fi V9
2013
12
Anthology of Sci-Fi V10
2013
13
Anthology of Sci-Fi V11
2013
14
Anthology of Sci-Fi V12
2013
15
Anthology of Sci-Fi V13
2013
16
Anthology of Sci-Fi V15
2013
17
Anthology of Sci-Fi V17
2013
18
Anthology of Sci-Fi V18
2013
19
Anthology of Sci-Fi V19
2013
20
Anthology of Sci-Fi V20
2013
21
Anthology of Sci-Fi V22
2013
22
Anthology of Sci-Fi V24
2013
The Pulp Writers Books
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1
Anthology of Sci-Fi V1
2013
2
Anthology of Sci-Fi V2
2013
3
Anthology of Sci-Fi V3
2013
4
Anthology of Sci-Fi V4
2013
5
Anthology of Sci-Fi V5
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V6
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V7
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V8
2013
9
Anthology of Sci-Fi V9
2013
10
Anthology of Sci-Fi V10
2013
11
Anthology of Sci-Fi V11
2013
12
Anthology of Sci-Fi V12
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V13
2013
14
Anthology of Sci-Fi V15
2013
15
Anthology of Sci-Fi V17
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V18
2013
17
Anthology of Sci-Fi V19
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V20
2013
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Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers
2013
20
Anthology of Sci-Fi V22
2013
Stellar Books
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Stellar Short Novels
1976
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Stellar #1 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey)
1974
3
Stellar #2
1976
4
Stellar Short Novels (By: Gordon R. Dickson, Andrew J. Offutt, Judy-Lynn del Rey, Shawn Oueinsteen)
1976
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Stellar #3
1977
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Stellar #2 (With: Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Howard Waldrop, Jack C. Haldeman II, Steven Utley, Hal Clement, James White, Richard S. Simak, Judy-Lynn del Rey, Patrick G. Conner)
1976
7
Stellar #3 (With: Jack L. Chalker, Gene DeWeese, Jeffrey M. Wallman, Charles W. Runyon, Mildred Downey Broxon, Henry Melton, Judy-Lynn del Rey, Arsen Darney, B. Lee Cooper, Larry S. Haverkos, Steve Utley, Bill Starr)
1977
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Stellar #4
1978
9
Stellar #4 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey)
1978
10
Stellar #5
1980
11
Stellar #6
1980
12
Stellar #5 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey)
1980
13
Stellar #7
1981
14
Stellar #6 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey)
1980
15
Stellar #7 (By: Terry Carr, Leanne Frahm, Judy-Lynn del Rey)
1981
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI
2016
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI (By: Robert Sheckley)
2016
3
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV
2018
4
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV (By: Robert Sheckley)
2018
5
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X
2018
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (With: James Blish, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, Harry Harrison, Roger Dee, Anthony Gilmore, Robert Hoskins, Richard Rein Smith)
2018
Clifford D. Simak Anthologies
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Astounding Science Fiction, October 1958
1958
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Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy
1961
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Novelets of Science Fiction
1963
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Alien Worlds
1964
5
The Microcosmic God
1965
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Tomorrow 1 | Science Fiction by the Masters
1971
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Nebula Award 6
1972
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The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two
1973
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The Devil's Generation
1973
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Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives
1973
11
The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding
1973
12
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...
1974
13
Decade: The 1940's
1975
14
Stellar #2
1976
15
Threads Of Time
1976
16
Aliens: 3 Novellas
1977
17
Stellar #3
1977
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Perilous Planets
1978
19
Rod Serling's Other Worlds
1978
20
The Best of Astounding
1979
21
Analog Science Fiction, November 1979
1979
22
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor
1982
23
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
1992
24
The SFWA Grand Masters 1
1999
25
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction
2002
26
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
2006
27
More Fantastic Stories
2009
28
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
2010
29
Startling Stories #3
2010
30
Science Fiction Gems, Vol. One
2011
31
The Time Travel Megapack
2013
32
Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers
2013
33
The Best of Galaxy, Volume Two
2016
34
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Twelve
2016
35
The Driftless Reader
2017
36
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XV
2018
37
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X
2018
38
Thrilling Wonder Stories - December 1938
2018
39
Space Pioneers
2018
40
Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System
2020
41
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction