I think Margarita's analysis of the title for City is probably right. For the dogs, it represents a mystery, for us it represents a longing for things past....
I believe a good case can be made that Clifford Simak's favorite tree was the crab apple. He mentioned them in many books and stories and Southern Wisconsin...
Greetings: What was Simak's favorite state? I have my theories, but want to hear some other opinions first... Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of...
Its gotta be Wisconsin. Time and again he mentions the state, or Millville, or describes a location that has to be the confluence of the Wisconsin and...
Greetings: Bill gets one of my guesses right--Wisconsin. But here's the funny thing. When travelling through Missouri on a couple of times, especially along...
I think there is some merit in Missouri. I believe that is the route in Heritage of Stars. I find "Simak places" in Pennsylvania, Vermont, the Adirondacks,...
I've been through Simak's country in Wisconsin a number of times, hiking, among the bluffs, river bottoms, etc. For me, the country begins (in Wisconsin) at...
I'm sure that the parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri probably represent the area that Simak had in mind when he was writing, especially Wisconsin...
I've got a crab apple on my property. They are beautiful for a couple weeks in the year but, unfortunately, not too exciting most of the time. One of the...
What with all the commentary on Millville that our group has produced lately, it's funny that The Green Man Review site has just posted a review of "Way...
There have been some nice personal observations from the group in the last few days which I have enjoyed. I think I feel very much the same as Paul. There was...
Hello all, I added the short introduction to Aesop, from the complete recording of the short story, released on Caedmon. Since this is only a short segment of...
Hello all, Good news for all of us wanting to read a biography on CDS. In the "Reader's Guide to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors" there was a...
... The Wildside Press site is notoriously difficult to navigate around - do you have a direct URL link to the book in question? The only one I could find...
Greetings: Even stranger...there are two copies of that book listed. One costs $14.95. The other costs $14.95 but has a $14.95 discount! Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My...
This is a great mp3:) I had never heard Simak before, except on a short excerpt from an interview with him:) But that was much too short... Thanks a lot! ... ...
Has anyone ordered the new Ewald book from Wildside? I tried twice but their web site wouldn't accept my billing address and tried to contact them but got no...
I just successfully completed a purchase of the book. I paid through paypal and have received paypal confirmation. I guess it's now up to (apparently) John ...
I would also be interested in your response to the book and whether it's just a rehash or reprinting of other material available elsewhere. Scott Henderson ...
I'll be happy to provide a report. I'm not familiar with the other material you refer to except for what I've read on the Simak site. I noticed in passing that...
Hello, I read a short story by Cliff Simak probably 20 years ago about a nasty guy who was very lucky. It turned out that there were "halflings" aliens on...
Finding an interesting parallel between Simak's pastoral writing and Wendell Berry's "Back to the farm" philosophy, I just read one of Berry's novels "The...
I'm afraid your story doesn't ring any bells with me, but I'm not an expert on Simak's short fiction. Hopefully, somebody who knows will come by and tell us...
... I've been wracking my brains about this one, but with no result (which doesn't say much as my memory is lousy). The trouble is that it doesn't SOUND like...
First, thanks for your help. I am 99% certain it was a Simak story, and it was in a short story collection that I must have loaned to someone who never...
