Just a quick note to say I've updated my Simak website: www.falseducks.com/simak/index.html Updates an alternate source for the Simak story, "The Money Tree" ...
Simak's stories represent a fleeting pastoralism for me. On one side of my family, I'm the first to have not grown up on a farm. Incidentally, that farm was...
i finally got a free moment to read the cosmic engineers, one of CDS' earliest works, and came away impressed by the sophistication of the work. i had half...
Hi, I was rereading "A Heritage of Stars" and thought it fun to plot a rough path of the book's heros to the "Place of Going to the Stars"-- aka Thunder Butte,...
... - ... specific ... Minnesota ... Butte. ... sacred ... is ... that sounds like a worthy pilgrimage lou. it might be an idea for my future, once college is...
Not sure if any of you folks are familiar with this new robot lawnmower? It reminded of that "dad burned" robot mower in CITY! http://www.friendlyrobotics.com/...
... lol yeah morbius, good call. i recall yrs ago seeing a wealthy guy with one of those suckers, probably not that exact type, but a similar concept. and when...
Greetings: Read this one a couple of years ago. The cover art idealized? Take a look at other Lehr stuff--it pretty much all looks the same after a while!...
this novel from cds' early days of fiction, seems to have some of the roots of his style, but lacks the real simak imprint. it's a breezy book that i read in a...
I agree, this one is not one of his best. Does anyone know any background on this book, how were the reviews in its time? What did Simak think of it? Kevin...
Greetings: I'd be curious too to know the background. About my least favorite Simak work, alas! And Tycho is one of my favorite sites on the Moon, so go...
It has been at least 10 years since I re-read "Tycho". I enjoyed it since it is a departure from classic Simak stories and had some interesting ideas about...
Yes, the crater is Tycho is fascinating especially for the old controversy about the age of the crater and how it formed including unconventional ideas about...
an interesting piece. it had some very effective imagery, where even the olfactory sense came into play. there were several unsettling parts, leaving one with...
Greetings: No, not the tale, an author that I'm finding has some Simak-like qualities. That would be David Drake. I've read his Hammer's Slammers tales in the...
Hello everybody. It's nice to see some more traffic on this forum. I've got a question some of you might be able to answer. While re- reading a very old SF...
Roberto Hi from the UK. Your query intigued me, as I couldn't think of any English Simak title that approximated to your Italian, but some digging came up with...
Ash, thanks for your mail. I'll try to find " Ogre " - the title has nothing to do with the Italian one, but as said very often the editors change completely...
Roberto On the subject of Italian v. original English titles, when I researched for your query I had to auto-translate an Italian web page, thus what happened...
Ash, I see what you mean. By the way, the Italian translation of " Quatermass and the Pit " was literal, as it became " Il Dr. (it seems he graduated in the...
Roberto "Goodnight, Mr. James" was actually the original title when it was first published in Galaxy March 1951. I first ran across it when I read the UK...
Ash, while I was writing my former mail something rang in my head saying that the original title was " Goodnight, Mr. James " indeed, but I wasn't sure. Thanks...
Thanks, Roberto! "The Black Windows House" for "Way Station"!! Spendid! And "Time Is the Simplest Thing" was originally published as "The Fisherman" in...
Ash, the plot doesn't say anything to me. I'm pretty sure I didn'ět ever read that story. Such alien just reminds vaguely those " witches " - I cannot find a...
Ash, I searched trough my library and you were absolutely right: the original title of the Italian translation " Pianeta sinfonico " is Ogre indeed! Though I...
Not sure about the Italian title but the story in English is title "Ogre". I just reread this in the past 2 weeks so it is fresh in my mind. I quite liked...
Roberto Glad I could help, but although I do profess to having many years experience of SF, including Clifford Simak, don't go away thinking it's all sitting...
Greetings: Could you folks please trim all but the most recent mail you are responding to if you quote from the previous message? Some of the messages...
I read They Walked Like Men just a couple of years ago. I hadn't come across a copy until then. I liked the form the Alien invasion took. It seemed lot more...
