Um livro intrigante, inquietante ao inverter as premissas humanistas da FC clássica. Em City, Simak entrega o planeta aos cães, num sentido muito literal. As espécies caninas vão-se tornar na forma dominante de vida inteligente numa Terra abandonada pelos humanos, partidos em busca de paraísos re...
A highly entertaining read. Simak's voice and outright command of language and imagery are superb. He puts unimaginable concepts into words that elucidate even as they mystify. His nods towards philosophy and the frequent humor are welcome amongst the prevailing typical sci-fi prose. [SLIGHT SPOI...
With a title like Project Pope, I was expecting Simak to craft an intriguing science fiction tale. Certainly, in the end there are some very interesting aspects that the author broaches. However, I was quite disappointed that there wasn't a substantial, in-depth discussion on any religious princi...
More than once, I have read an author's most celebrated work only to consider it their weakest. At the same time, I understood why it attained its popularity. Simak's Way Station is unfortunately another such book. It starts off with a typically imaginative scenario by the science fiction grea...
What and odd and strange little story!At times it came off as the easiest young-adult fantasy/fiction, but then the moments of sexual tension and cursing recalled that it indeed was something other.Some parts seem choppy between sequences, and really only one section seemed to drag a little too l...
Да наложиш мир и хармония на човечеството не е лесна работа – дори за чуждогалактическа форма на интелигентност, която изолира затънтеното градче Милвил от проблемния свят наоколо с невидима сферична бариера в романа. Тази година се навършват 50 години от издаването на емблематичния (и за Саймък,...
A lone man trapped on an alien planet2 May 2012tI have been reading over some of the old science-fiction short stories that I wrote probably about 10 to 15 years ago (and no, they are not published, thank God) and I must admit that these stories are far inferior to some of the science-fiction tha...
Clifford D. Simak was named the third winner of the Grand Master of Science Fiction, just after Robert Heinlein and Jack Williamson and he also won several Hugos and a Nebula as well as being named as one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. If writing aw...
The standard son of nobility who is a generally decent guy, a large sidekick who likes to bash in bad guy heads leave on a quest in medieval 1970's England? Some interesting characters join the quest, including a fearful ghost, a banshee, a demon kicked out of hell.... The quest was somewhat po...
What begins, well, after a bit of exposition, as a classic survivalist tale ends up as a puzzle concerning alien intervention (perhaps, a deus ex machina and time-travel. At times, Cemetery World seems to be a cautionary morality tale about corporate greed and the futility of warfare (indeed, a ...
This is my very first Science Fiction book. I have read it many years ago I absolutely loved it. I don't know will I like it so much if I read it know - after all the others sci-fi books I have read. But it's the book, which provoked my interest for this genre.Това е първа фантастична книга, коят...