... Hi Bud, I read and appreciated it. I have collected the bibliography, and I am currently trying to find out what has or has not been published in French. ...
Thanks, Kevin, First I''ve seen it. Speaking of City, The wind is getting northy and I'm putting up firewood. Time again to join the dogs for stories. From the...
"If Simak's estate was as litigious as Harlan Ellison, they might employ that passage as the basis for plagiarism lawsuits against hundreds of science fiction...
Nice to see that from time to time CDS gets the credits he deserves, although far too late. The concept of alien races to which killing is a kind of art of...
It's also rather interesting to see Simak compared with Harlan Ellison. Talk about comparing apples and pomegranates. I wasn't planing to see the new Thing,...
Wisconsin + Mastodon does sound like the perfect setting for Simak story, but there is more to the story. What the article fails to tell us is that Emanuel...
Now that you write it, I had searched the article in order to find out in which exact place of Wisconsin the fossil had been found - just to see if it was near...
The write-up at the museum does sound a bit like Simak story. Farmer with a back-hoe is clearing an old peat bog and discovers the remains of a mastodon....
Ahh! Thank you Paul! I'd thought that the spear point find was also from Wisconsin: I'd misunderstood a sentence in the article referring to "two other finds...
The passion that Simak showed for pre-historic age - from dinosaurs to mammoths age - is really remarkable. In many of his works he treated it, and he even set...
And googling wisconsin and mastodon brings up a number of mastodon finds dating back years. I'm sure that news of these (such as the wikipedia site in my...
As much as I love Simak, finding a robot brain case with a mastodon killed with a bone pointed spear would probably bring me to think of Howard Waldrop, not...
Those discoveries during Simak's youth must have had an influence on him. He was obviously interested in the distant past. If you look at his Wikipedia Page...
That sounds like a good story. I've never read any Howard Waldrop, so I've just ordered a cheap collection that includes the perisphere (I think, and if not,...
Yes, Hugh, such a story intrigues me too. Afterwards, a variegated exploration party is a typical Simakian situation. I'll wait until you read it before...
Simak was an award-winning science journalists. His non-fiction books are drawn from this writing, although he used works by other writers as well. He edited a...
Sort of intrigued by this. Not only have I not read either Mastodonia or Howard Waldrop, but I wrote a short story a few years back in which the survivor of an...
Interesting to know that one of our fellows wrote a short story. I'd be curious to read it. As to Mastodonia (Cat Face in UK, if I remember well) is...
Oh Dear, Hugh. I suppose I should warn you that Howard Waldrop is very quirky writer and not at all like Clifford Simak, though some of his stories do bear a...
