During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some
of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in
1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a
small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of
the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare
time.
Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the
horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In
1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and
in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award.
In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and
Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was
named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers
Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
"Simak does an excellent job. . . . [His] ideas are so sharp and
his writing so warm." --The Guardian
"Well-told and interesting . . . Involving and fast-moving, with
plenty of SF heft to its ideas, and plenty of emotional punch as
well . . . Highly recommended." --SF Site
"This is the Old Master at his best." --Las Vegas
Review-Journal
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