Clifford Donald Simak (Millville, Wisconsin, August 3, 1904 - Minneapolis, April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.
Simak had a long career as a journalist at various newspapers, culminating in the function of news and science editor at Minneapolis Star. His first SF story was published in 1931. It lasted until 1938 before he seriously began writing on the insistence of John W. Campbell. His most productive period was in the 50s and 60s, although writing only became a day job after retirement in 1976.
Simak excelled in short stories and short stories. While most of his fellow writers engaged in space exploration and revolutionary technologies, Simak emphasized ordinary rural people who experience unusual events. The dialogues in his books make him read as a written script and give his stories a very distinctive atmosphere. Much of his work plays in his native country, with farmers and craftsmen from the Wisconsin countryside. Dogs often occur in his stories, and in City, they are even the main characters who have a mythical human being once lived on earth. Main prices Nebula Award Locus Award International Fantasy Award SFWA Grand Master Award (1977) Bram Stoker Award (1988) - life achievement Trivia
In Simak's short story Retrograde Evolution (published in 1956), the "Googles" occur, alien creatures who can absorb massive information very quickly. In Waystation (Earth Space Station), the manager of a space ground station on Earth in the basement has a space to relax. He then enters into a computer-generated world in which he can interactively (hunting, for example). Such a principle would become well known as the 'holodeck' in the series Startreck: The Next Generation Partial bibliography
Many stories were translated into Dutch in the 1970s. Romans
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