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Tag: Clifford D. Simak

  • THE MARATHON PHOTOGRAPH AND OTHER STORIES (1986)
    by
    Clifford D. Simak

    [T]his time out, we have a single author collection of short fiction by one of my favourite authors, Clifford D. Simak, in which all of the stories have an underlying thematic link dealing with the mysterious paradox of time. It\’s quite a short collection, at only 171 pages, and only four stories (making it a…

  • THE MARATHON PHOTOGRAPH AND OTHER STORIES (1986) by Clifford D. Simak

    This time out, we have a single author collection of short fiction by one of my favourite authors, Clifford D. Simak, in which all of the stories have an underlying thematic link dealing with the mysterious paradox of time. It\’s quite a short collection, at only 171 pages, and only four stories (making it a…

  • STORIES FOR TOMORROW (1954) edited by William Sloane

    [I]\’ve got an interesting anthology in front of me at the moment. Actually, I\’ve got two different editions of it. Firstly an original US 1st Edition hardback, which I bought from a dealer on Amazon. This is an ex-library copy, and came without a dustjacket, otherwise the book itself is in excellent condition. The other…

  • THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF LUCKY STARR by Paul French (Isaac Asimov)

    [S]everal posts ago, I listed some of the SF novels that I\’d picked up recently, among them two of Isaac Asimov\’s Lucky Starr juvies that he wrote back in the 1950\’s under his Paul French pseudonym. Well, that set me to searching for the only single-volume omnibus of all six Lucky Starr novels, which I…

  • POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION edited by Groff Conklin

    [T]his is an interesting anthology, edited by one of the great classic SF anthologists, and another of my favourites, Groff Conklin. TITLE: POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION EDITED BY: Groff Conklin CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 256 pages PUBLISHER: Grayson & Grayson, Ltd, London, 1952. CONTENTS: Introduction by Groff Conklin PART ONE: THE…

  • BEACHHEADS IN SPACE edited by August Derleth

    TITLE: BEACHHEADS IN SPACE EDITED BY: August Derleth CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 224 pages PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954 (Originally published in the US in 1952 by Pellegrini & Cudahy). That\’s the various general details, here\’s a listing of the contents: \”Beachhead\” by Clifford D. Simak (1951) \”The Years Draw Nigh\”…