Bless you, Roberto. It is always great to see another convert. As for "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," both it and A Canticle for Liebowitz are biblical sounding...
Hugh, thanks for your concern. It took more than 2 weeks, but power is back to everybody in New England. Road crews are still gathering up downed branches and...
This appears to be a piece of spam trying to get people to sign up for an on-line jobs recruiter. Beware, folks. It may also leave something on your computer...
Hugh, the whole year has been full of rarities. 1. Tornado - last one of that magnitude was 35 years ago. 2. Earthquake - last one was 120 years ago. 3....
I lead a relatively sheltered life, as far as weather is concerned, here in the South of England. While I may read about (some) events, it makes it much more...
Thanks Hugh et al  Have changed yahoo security and sent a delete warning to the other addresses.  Thanks for the pickup ________________________________ ...
I was born in 1952 so I can't remember about the cold winter of 1956, but my wife, who was born on March 1956, told me about her parents telling her that the...
I remember the hurricane of 1987 well (born in 1951). The soil was wet and the trees had not yet lost their autumn leaves. Whole swathes of trees were...
Found one on Amazon for $10. Must admit, not having had high expectations, I'm actually enjoying this one a lot. It's not the greatest Simak (and not having...
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, mactlactome_xochitl < ... There are two Campbells: the Super Science Campbell and Don A. Stuart. All of the Stuart stories...
Hi All. Lately human kind has been facing many troubles. Over " classic " pollution, hunger and lack of drinkable water in some areas, global warming, extreme...
Hugh, after postponing time and again, ;-), at last today I searched Amazon to possibly purchase " The Creator and Other Stories ". As you rightly observed,...
Very much so, Roberto. In one of the old books of Mexico (Fr. Sahagun I think - 16th century Mexico is sort of my thing) there is a translation of some...
I found my copy (the Crawford one) on eBay, so it could be worth keeping an eye on that, although I paid $40 so er... Good luck anyway. Worst comes to the...
Roberto: The Simak story was reprinted in the Asimov/Greenberg anthology, _Creations_ (Crown 1983). There are plenty of copies for sale cheap here: ...
Lawrence, thanks a lot for your kind proposal. What I'll do is to keep an eye on e-bay as you suggest, then, after a reasonable waiting, I'll decide what to...
Thank you very much, Bud. I'll take a look at the links very soon. Roberto Da: simak-fan@yahoogroups.com [mailto:simak-fan@yahoogroups.com] Per conto di Bud...
And Hi Roberto I see Bud & Lawrence have already posted helpful suggestions. Reunion on Ganymede (1938). about 27 pages long. fits very much into Simak's...
... I don't know of another one, but there may have been a more recent publication I'm not aware of. ... The only re-publication of the first was in H. L....
That's interesting Lawrence: "an evil person being 'someone who makes things complicated'". I like that. Regarding the current crises, Roberto, I have no idea...
Bud Thanks for recommending Addall.com. I'd never heard of them and will check them out in future. I check out the prices of those collections from time to...
Hugh, Another time sink .... mjw ... -- "One of the best-kept secrets in American literature, the novels of the mysterious Edward Whittemore are like bowls of...
Hello all, You are right that Reunion on Ganymede and Party Line have only been reprinted in "The Creator and other stories" (other than their initial pulp ...
I feel something like Roberto described quite often. Simak, unlike me, saw a possible salvation in withdrawing from the din of civilization and back to the...
