His own death touched me deeply, and I’m happy to see him remembered with this collection of his best loved stories. I heard from him often during the painful time after his wife’s death. I loved him, as so many did, for his unfailing warmth and a wit that was keen but never cruel. Even his cosmic aliens always had half human dimensions that made them believable. His new could reach to the ends of space and time, but never beyond reality. His known was the rural Midwest that he loved. James Gunn Good fantasy and that includes science fiction takes off from the known for its flights into the new. Isaac Asimov Without Simak, science fiction would have been without its most humane element, its most humane spokesman for the wisdom of the ordinary person and the value of life lived close to the land. I made up my mind to imitate it, and I labored over the years to make my writing simpler, clearer, more uncluttered, to present my scenes on a bare stage. Poul Anderson I read Cliff’s stories with particular attention, and I couldn’t help but notice the simplicity and directness of the writing the utter clarity of it. He wrote for so long and always so well that his excellence came to be taken for granted, as we take sunlight for granted until we go blind. James Dusty Zebra Neighbor Over the River & Through the Woods Construction Shack Grotto of the Dancing Deer BACK COVER:… TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contents: A Death in the House The Big Front Yard Goodnight Mr. After that, things grew complicated as they fled to the distant past and the farther future.Ĭlassic stories of science fiction by this Nebula Grandmaster award winner. The, suddenly, the Infinites’ killer monster broke through.
But they had reports of something sniffing at the bubble. Now, for more than a century they had lain hidden in their time bubble around Hopkins Acre. When the family refused conversion, they had been forced to flee in their time travelers. There, in the far future, the alien Infinites were converting humanity to incorporeal form, promising that would give them immortality. The box turned out to be a time traveler machine that transported them almost instantly back to 1745 in Shropshire, England, where they found a strange family of refugees from a million years in the future. Maybe he could step around a corner into the box. When threatened, he could ‘step around a corner’ into some otherwhere until the danger passed. There was no way to get into the box, however, so Corcoran cabled his longtime pal Tom Boone in Singapore to fly to New York. Bot Corcoran’s trick vision spotted what no one else could see a room sized box stuck somehow to the outside wall of the suite. A client had vanished, and Jay Corcoran went to investigate the man’s hotel suite, which seemed empty.
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