#clifford d simak

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 Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth. ~ Clifford D Simak

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Vintage Paperback - Best Science Fiction Stories Of Clifford D. Simak

Paperback Library (1972)

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Some banners I made in Canva for the books I'm currently reading over on @libreramune, my book livereading blog! Go give it a follow if you're interested O(∩_∩)O

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Analog Magazine October 1979. Cover art by Vincent DiFate with additional art by Jack Gaughan and Broeck Steadman.

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A queer feeling stole over him, a queer feeling of well-being. New strength was flowing into him, the old thrill of battle was pounding through his blood once more.

Not only were queer things happening to his body, but also to his brain. The world about him looked queer, held a sort of an intangible mystery he could not understand.

Hellhounds of the Cosmos, Clifford D. Simak , 1932

[travelingcryptologist]

Cover for Clifford D. Simak's novel “Time and Again” by Michael Whelan, published by Ace Books (1976).

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Fiction books read in the first half of 2024, part 2 of 3

Shakespeare's Planet, by Clifford D. Simak

She Left, by Stacie Grey

Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 001, by various

Star Trek The Next Generation The Eyes of the Beholders, by A.C. Crispin

The First Men in the Moon, by H.G. Wells

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[anotheruserwithnoname]

Reposting this years-old post about the Clifford Simak novel because I recently discovered it features, of all people, Harriet Quimby as a supporting character. As in the same Harriet Quimby who because a pioneering pilot (first woman in North America to be awarded a pilot's licence), was the first to fly solo across the English channel in 1912, and was also an acclaimed investigative journalist - basically she was Lois Lane a quarter century before Superman was invented. In this novel she is reimagined as a journalist who happens to also be a telepath and her path intersects that of the hero of the book.

Harriet isn't a lead character in the same way Amelia Earhart is featured in the Max Allan Collins novel Flying Blind, but considering how few books there are about her, it stuck out that Simak would think of including her in his 1961 SF novel. He must have been a fan too.

Time is the Simplest Thing by Clifford Simak

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.

Kindle ebook from Amazon

Paperback from AbeBooks

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Ian Miller, ''The Werewolf Principle'' by Clifford D. Simak, 1977 Source

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Chris Moore cover art for A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak, 1986.

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Their thoughts are not our thoughts, their ideals not our ideals. Perhaps they have nothing in common with us except the primal basis of all life, self-preservation, the necessity of feeding.

Hellhounds of the Cosmos, Clifford D Simak, 1932

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Artist Unknown Art for Clifford D. Simak’s “Spacebred Generations”, variant title: “Target Generation” (1953)