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  • Earth for Inspiration
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    From tales of alien invasions and intergalactic war to visions of dystopian tomorrows, an astonishing collection from one of literary science fiction’s all-time greats, Hugo Award winner Clifford D. Simak. The twentieth century’s so-called golden age of science fiction produced many great writers—including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein—yet no...
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    26,27 €

  • The Shipshape Miracle
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Nine tales of imagination and wonder from one of the formative voices of science fiction and fantasy, the author of Way Station and City.   Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Clifford D. Simak was a preeminent voice during the decades that established sci-fi as a genre to be reckoned with. Held in the same esteem as fellow luminaries Isaac Asimov, ...
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    26,23 €

  • The Thing in the Stone
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre’s most revered Grand Masters.   Legendary author Robert A. Heinlein proclaimed, “To read science fiction is to read Simak. A reader who does not like Simak stories does not like science fiction at all.” The remarkably talented Clifford D. Simak was able to ground his vast imagination in reality, and then i...
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    26,24 €

  • Dusty Zebra
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Tales of science fiction and adventure from the Hugo Award–winning author of Way Station and City.   The long and prolific career of Clifford D. Simak cemented him as one of the formative voices of the science fiction and fantasy genre. The third writer to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, his literary legacy stands alongside those of Robert A. ...
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    28,11 €

  • Good Night, Mr. James
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Strange, poignant tales of life in outer space and on tomorrow’s Earth from the multiple Hugo Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction. Virtually every major author from science fiction’s fabled golden age—including Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—agreed that Clifford D. Simak was one of the greatest among them. Named Grand Master by the Science Fiction...
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    27,19 €

  • New Folks’ Home
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Ten stories of wonder and imagination by an author named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.   In the collection’s title story, Frederick Gray is closing in on seventy and has outlived his usefulness as a professor of law. He has no family; his best friend, fellow faculty member Ben Lovell, has recently died. Before Gray moves into a retirement h...
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    28,10 €

  • No Life of Their Own
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Twelve classic tales of the unknown from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station. Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a lost way of life. He spent his youth in rural Wisconsin, a landscape filled with mysterious hollows, cliffs, dark forests, and the Wisconsin River flowing in its deep-cut valley. As Simak wandered the countryside and the ridges, he...
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    27,19 €

  • Grotto of the Dancing Deer
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Ten tales of wonder, danger, and the future—including the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning title story—from the science fiction Grand Master. This volume contains ten stellar short stories by Clifford D. Simak, “the most underrated great science fiction writer alive” (Theodore Sturgeon). In “Grotto of the Dancing Deer,” a man carrying an ancient secret finally speaks up, unable to...
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    27,22 €

  • A Death in the House
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Ten thrilling and intriguing tales of space travel, war, and alien encounters from the multiple Hugo Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.   From Frank Herbert’s Dune to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series to Philip K. Dick’s stories of bizarre visions of a dystopian future, the latter half of the twentieth century produced some of the finest examples of speculative ficti...
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    27,21 €

  • The Big Front Yard
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Tales of the unknown in which a fix-it man crosses into another dimension—and more Hiram Taine is a handyman who can fix anything. When he isn’t fiddling with his tools, he is roaming through the woods with his dog, Towser, as he has done for as long as he can remember. He likes things that he can understand. But when a new ceiling appears in his basement—a ceiling that appears...
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    22,62 €

  • The Ghost of a Model T
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It’s been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it takes him right back to his twenties. The door is open, and when he climbs in, the car takes off—without a driver. Before he knows what’s happened, Hank is right back at Big Spring...
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    22,62 €

  • I Am Crying All Inside
    Clifford D. Simak / David W. Wixon
    From the Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station: Ten stories—including one never before published—of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be. People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not...
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    22,61 €