The World That Couldnt Be, Clifford D. Simak
The World That Couldnt Be, Clifford D. Simak
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The World That Couldn't Be

Author: Clifford D. Simak

Narrator: Tasha Nerys

Unabridged: 1 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/26/2022

Synopsis

Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without families? But Gavin Duncan didn’t care. He had come to Layard to farm vua plants. Their berries cured mental illnesses and were one of the most expensive commodities in the galaxy. He was going to make his fortune if he could just keep the Cytha at bay, a big, dumb animal that could munch through 10 rows of vua in a night, but why was the Cytha deemed unkillable by the natives? Despite native superstitions he was going to have to hunt and kill the pest if he was to protect his crop. It was a dim-witted beast. How hard could it be? –

About Clifford D. Simak

During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time.

Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lacivard on March 29, 2019

Gözəl idi, maraqlı idi, bir nəfəsə idi, biraz qorxulu idi. Çox bomba müəllifdir, belə gec tanış olduğumuza görə heyfslənirəm.......more

Goodreads review by Phil on September 18, 2023

Living among one of the primitive tribes on the planet Layard, a human farmer and physician named Gavin Duncan finds his crops partially eaten overnight by a creature known as the Cytha. Duncan makes it clear that he intends to hunt down and kill the animal before it returns to finish off his entire......more

Goodreads review by Anna on May 23, 2020

It took me some time to figure out what was the story I read many years ago, but it turned out to be The World that Couldn't Be. I must say I remembered it quite differently from what I read now, my child's brain added a lot to the narrative (and also subtracted quite a few things it had no context......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 25, 2023

First encounter with this author, 3.5* rounded up. Thinly veiled sci-fi short story using the pioneer-settler motif transferred to a non-earth planet. Homey, homespun style. Cute little environmental tale about a man’s colonisation efforts on a strange sort of world where he has to deal with local na......more

Goodreads review by Elza on April 20, 2023

Another captivating story from Clifford D. Simak This story is short but the beginning, middle and end were all well written to keep my attention as Simak described another kind of life - form on a distant planet and why hunting it was a bad idea.......more

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