Hi Bill, thank you for your beautiful text. It is really a travel through time and landscapes and it is as well a very inspiring kind to talk about Simak. Even...
And Hi Bill I'll join Rudiger in thanking you so much for posting this first chapter on the group files. It's a truly lovely piece of writing that is so...
Thank you Rudiger. I might have time to finish the book except I spend more and more of my time trying to promote the type of society that I think we are all...
Thank you, Hugh. I forgot who asked for Wixon's address but I just found it last night. I don't know how old it is. David W. Wixon PO Box 23237 Richfield, MN...
Bill, This is really good. Thank you for sharing this with us. Your Derleth quote about "native soil" reminds me of something William Faulkner is reported...
Thank you Kevin. You folks are giving me some encouragement. Maybe so I need to try to get Wixon's attention. I'm going to need permissions to use the...
Hello All, I just obtained a copy of Worlds of Fantasy from Spring 1971, which contains the CDS story "Reality Doll," later to appear as the novel "Destiny...
Hi all. I knew that Destiny Doll was also named Reality Doll, but I thought it was something like " Way Station/Here Gather the Stars " - I didn't know that...
Hi Roberto, To the best of my knowledge, the Reality Doll version only appeared in the issue of Worlds of Fantasy magazine (Issue 4, Spring 1971) that I got it...
Hi Gary. Thanks for the info. As Reality Doll is 115 pages long, it is much shorter than Destiny Doll, that - at least in the Italian translation - is 278, so...
Hi Bill, inspired by your text, i read again CHOICE OF GODS, THE SITTERS (One of my favorite short stories) and I am now in the middle of reading again WAY...
... Globally, Act Locally" to just "Think Locally." How about we just change it "Think!"? That covers all the bases. It's also what you book causes us to do,...
Roberto and all, thanks, Roberto, for nudging me into introducing myself to the group. My "book of gold" (Gene Wolfe readers will know what I mean) was Time...
Thanks, Paul. I have been in touch with the University of Minnesota. Maybe what I need to do is just be more persistent. Of late I've gained a better...
Ron et al, thanks for responding. It's always interesting to learn which stories the other participants like the most. Indeed, I was also willing to ask which...
Bill, I've downloaded it and read yesterday at last, and I cannot but second the congratulations of the others. A very good job, meaningful and very well...
The accumulation of knowledge, whether in universities or in intergalactic storage is such a recurring theme in Simak, that I enjoyed reading the discussions...
Nice insights Hugh.  Simak's constant reference to these vast "libraries" has also fascinated me. I moved to a rural location with a vast university...
This thread interests me -- I work for the University of Minnesota Libraries and have always been drawn to Simak's concept of something like the "universal...
Hi all, after A CHOCICE OF GOD, I reread WAYSTATION ; TIME AND AGAIN and I now began TIME IS THE SIMPLIEST THING. It is really a great joy. In TIME AND AGAIN...
You guys are flying very, very high today, I cannot fly so high. My studies date back so long, and I must admit that since then I didn't read any of that stuff...
... me if I'm wrong... ;-) - it does not seem to me that any kind of deity is involved I have to disagree with you on this one, at least partly, Roberto. The ...
Awesome list Roberto. You folks are opening all sorts of "cans of worms." This line of thought makes me think about the Enlightenment: Knowledge is power. ...
Hi all, concerning the recent discussion here about religious themes in Simaks novels like for example TIME AND AGAIN etc, I would like to make some comments....
... with what we know now: intelligence advances, to a point, then goes extinct. You make a good point, Bill, but remember that Simak's ambivalence to man and...
I'll be the first to admit that Time And Again can be read differently than I have, Rüdiger. I tend to see the religious side of things because of my...
There's a lot for me to digest in these recent posts. I do really enjoy hearing (actually it's reading, isn't it?) the thoughts of others in this group,...
