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The name is Asher Sutton.

Clifford D. Simak

The name is Asher Sutton.

That was how it started, Enoch thought, almost a hundred years ago. The campfire fantasy had turned into fact and the Earth now was on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveli...

Clifford D. Simak

That was how it started, Enoch thought, almost a hundred years ago. The campfire fantasy had turned into fact and the Earth now was on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveli...

About Author
Clifford Donald Simak (; August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.

There are certain segments of society that will never lend an ear to a new idea. They squat in a certain place and will not budge from it. They will find many reasons to maintain a way of life that is...

Clifford D. Simak

There are certain segments of society that will never lend an ear to a new idea. They squat in a certain place and will not budge from it. They will find many reasons to maintain a way of life that is...

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely under...

Clifford D. Simak

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely under...

She was a creature of the woods and hills, of springtime flower and autumn flight of birds. She knew these things and lived with them and was, in some strange way, a specific part of them. She was one...

Clifford D. Simak

She was a creature of the woods and hills, of springtime flower and autumn flight of birds. She knew these things and lived with them and was, in some strange way, a specific part of them. She was one...

Had the memory worn thin? Had the debt he owed been paid? Had he discharged the last ounce of devotion? There are worlds out there, Andrew was saying, and life on some of them. Even some intelligence....

Clifford D. Simak

Had the memory worn thin? Had the debt he owed been paid? Had he discharged the last ounce of devotion? There are worlds out there, Andrew was saying, and life on some of them. Even some intelligence....

For what need was there to go anywhere? It all was here. By simply twirling a dial one could talk face to face with anyone wished, could go, by sense, if not in body, anywhere one wished. Could attend...

Clifford D. Simak

For what need was there to go anywhere? It all was here. By simply twirling a dial one could talk face to face with anyone wished, could go, by sense, if not in body, anywhere one wished. Could attend...

Delectable, Ulysses said. Of all the drinks that I have drank on all the planets I have visited, the coffee is the best.

Clifford D. Simak

Delectable, Ulysses said. Of all the drinks that I have drank on all the planets I have visited, the coffee is the best.

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The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.

Clifford D. Simak

The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.

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Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strict...

Clifford D. Simak

Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strict...

With creation went responsibility and he was not equipped to assume more than the moral responsibility for the wrong that he had done, and moral responsibility, unless it might be coupled with the abi...

Clifford D. Simak

With creation went responsibility and he was not equipped to assume more than the moral responsibility for the wrong that he had done, and moral responsibility, unless it might be coupled with the abi...

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive...

Clifford D. Simak

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive...

Tags: war

Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium o...

Clifford D. Simak

Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium o...

An android voice answered, It’s Mr. Thorne, sir, on the mentophone from Andrelon. Thank you, Alice, Adams said.

Clifford D. Simak

An android voice answered, It’s Mr. Thorne, sir, on the mentophone from Andrelon. Thank you, Alice, Adams said.

Although myth may be romanticized and woefully short of fact, it must, by definition, have some foundation in lost happenings.

Clifford D. Simak

Although myth may be romanticized and woefully short of fact, it must, by definition, have some foundation in lost happenings.

A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I,...

Clifford D. Simak

A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I,...

A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity.

Clifford D. Simak

A man, he told himself, must belong to something, must have some loyalty and some identity.

A lark sailed out of a grassy plot and soared high into the sky, and seeing it, he waited for the trill of liquid song to spray out of its throat and drip out of the blue. But there was no song, as th...

Clifford D. Simak

A lark sailed out of a grassy plot and soared high into the sky, and seeing it, he waited for the trill of liquid song to spray out of its throat and drip out of the blue. But there was no song, as th...

To regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.

Clifford D. Simak

To regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.

Moments ago the creature in the tank had rested in another tank in another station and the materializer had built up a pattern of it — not only of its body, but of its very vital force, the thing that...

Clifford D. Simak

Moments ago the creature in the tank had rested in another tank in another station and the materializer had built up a pattern of it — not only of its body, but of its very vital force, the thing that...