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269 jorgenlundmark Offline Send Email May 8, 2006
1:47 am
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...
270 wsharp407@...
wsharp407 Offline Send Email
May 9, 2006
2:47 am
That's great news! Thank you....
271 Phil Stephensen-Payne
philsp99 Offline Send Email
May 11, 2006
11:15 am
... 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...
272 Fred Kiesche
godel2escher... Offline Send Email
May 11, 2006
12:53 pm
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...
273 Margarita
mikkenzi Offline Send Email
May 23, 2006
1:06 pm
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! ... ...
274 wsharp407@...
wsharp407 Offline Send Email
May 25, 2006
3:16 pm
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...
275 emily reed
emilyreed7 Offline Send Email
May 25, 2006
11:17 pm
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 ...
276 Scott Henderson
hendersonqli Offline Send Email
May 26, 2006
2:41 am
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 ...
277 emily reed
emilyreed7 Offline Send Email
May 26, 2006
6:01 am
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...
278 kozakproductions
kozakproduct... Offline Send Email
May 30, 2006
10:35 pm
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...
279 wsharp407@...
wsharp407 Offline Send Email
May 31, 2006
8:05 pm
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...
280 Paul Cooper
pecooper98362 Offline Send Email
Jun 1, 2006
5:47 pm
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...
281 Phil Stephensen-Payne
philsp99 Offline Send Email
Jun 2, 2006
5:24 pm
... 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...
282 Scott Henderson
hendersonqli Offline Send Email
Jun 2, 2006
5:45 pm
The one that comes to mind for me is Idiot's Crusade where Aliens helped a simpleton exact vengeance on wicked people. Scott Henderson...
283 kozakproductions
kozakproduct... Offline Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
4:01 pm
Thanks for the info. I will look and if I find it I will post the story name. George ... an ... will come ... Stories of ... ...
284 kozakproductions
kozakproduct... Offline Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
4:12 pm
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...
285 Fred Kiesche
godel2escher... Offline Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
8:28 pm
Greetings: From that description--e.g., the glasses, the "halflings" helping people, etc.--it is startig to fire some of my dis-used memory cells. I'm not sure...
286 Scott Henderson
hendersonqli Offline Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
11:01 pm
It's starting to sound a bit like "Galactic Chest". In it there are these aliens who help people and are likened to "Brownies". It's available in: *...
287 Phil Stephensen-Payne
philsp99 Offline Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
7:50 am
... That was my first thought, but the story just doesn't match the description :-( Regards, Phil S-P...
288 Fred Kiesche
godel2escher... Offline Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
11:19 am
Greetings: I sent the description around to a number of friends, and one said it is the following: Title: No Life of Their Own Author: Clifford D. Simak Year:...
289 kozakproductions
kozakproduct... Offline Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
2:17 pm
Thanks a million! I'm off right now to try to find a copy. Thanks again to everyone for your efforts! George M. Kozak ... drinks water. (Mark Twain,...
290 Johnboy
johnboy1053 Offline Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
4:05 pm
And bad things happen to good people when you loan your books out as we've all discovered. jp First, thanks for your help. I am 99% certain it was a Simak...
291 Paul Bramscher
pfbram Offline Send Email
Jun 13, 2006
3:47 am
I've had this message marked "unread" for the past few weeks in my inbox, trying to formulate a response. There's a number of profound messages here. Our...
292 Amy Mathis
strangekinda... Offline Send Email
Jun 15, 2006
1:24 am
I had the privilege of meeting Wendell and his wife back in 1991, when I was attending seminary in Louisville, KY. Amy...
293 wsharp407@...
wsharp407 Offline Send Email
Jun 16, 2006
4:01 pm
Amy, What was your impression of Wendell and Tanya? What is your take on Berry's ideas about religion, specifically Christianity? Did you go into the ministry...
294 Fred Kiesche
godel2escher... Offline Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
12:39 am
Greetings: A few books that I've gotten recently have struck me as being somewhat Simak-like. First up is one that I read as a serial in Analog in 1975 or...
295 Cary
carycwt Offline Send Email
Jun 21, 2006
11:12 pm
Searching around the web, I eventually landed on this IMDB page, for Simak ... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799281/ ... and was shocked to find a listing for a...
296 Johnboy
johnboy1053 Offline Send Email
Jun 22, 2006
8:10 pm
It would make a good movie, but I wonder if we'll ever see the Russian version. Probably not. jp Has anyone seen this film? Was it authorized by the Simak...
297 Margarita
mikkenzi Offline Send Email
Jun 23, 2006
7:44 pm
I have tried to find it but I could never lay my hands on a copy of this film... I have no idea where to look for it. If somebody goes to Russia one day,...
298 Margarita
mikkenzi Offline Send Email
Jun 23, 2006
7:49 pm
Why were you shocked? :-) ... for ... or...
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