This masterpiece beautifully captures Simak’s skill at depicting rural life, his visionary inventiveness, and his faith in humanity’s virtues. The story calls to mind Simak’s novel Mastodonia until it veers off into unexpected but not entirely unfamiliar directions. After the death of his wife, a man isolates himself on a farm in rural southwestern Wisconsin, the setting of so many Simak stories, where he begins to have visions of prehistoric life in earlier geologic periods of time. The title selection, “The Thing in the Stone,” reads like a master’s thesis on Simak literature. I’ve read all the volumes published thus far, and Volume Twelve is clearly one of the best books in this consistently excellent series. Simak series, which is projected to be 14 volumes in all. “In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories is the twelfth book in The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. “I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme-if we have a purpose. “I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space,” he once said. Many science-fiction writers wrote of invincible supermen, but Simak wrote about common people in far-off places and distant times who, like contemporary man, suffer losses along with gains. His works over the years appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, Marvel Tales and many other publications. He published “The Creator” in 1935, in which humans and aliens join forces to prevent a “cone of light” from destroying the universe. He had written at home for years before achieving recognition with “City.” His first published work was “The World of the Red Sun,” which appeared in 1931. “Here was a world-class author who had so much energy that, even in his 70s, he worked a full shift at the paper and then went home to write.” “I was in awe of him,” Robert Franklin, who was city editor of the Tribune during part of Simak’s tenure, told the Associated Press. In 1939, he began his career with the Star and the Tribune. He attended the University of Wisconsin and then taught school for several years before taking his first newspaper job in 1929. The landscape of the farm, which overlooked the joining of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers, was transformed into mythical settings in much of his fiction. Simak was born on his grandfather’s farm in Millville, Wis. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1973. of America Nebula Awards, including the Grand Master in 1977 in recognition of his entire collection of work. He received three Hugo awards and three Science Fiction Assn.
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