The Thing in the Stone
And Other Stories

Clifford D. Simak was given the third Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; he wrote short stories proliferately for several decades in the last century. His work was generally published in magazines, but with the digital age comes the release of his collected wor......more

An Overdue Appreciation I've been reading science fiction since the 60's, and mostly favor short stories. But my early reading was predictable, (Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, Silverberg), and later on was shaped not by magazines but by all of the paperback anthologies that were so popular, (Gro......more

Metaphorosis Reviews, 3.5 stars Summary: A collection of mostly SFF stories from Clifford Simak Review: While this is overall a strong collection, it includes a number of stories that could have been much stronger with just a touch more work. In many of them, like "Hunch", about an alien that helps a bl......more

After seeing his books in stores for decades, I finally read one. Simak has old questions he considers from his idiosyncratic viewpoint. He reminds me of no other writer and his stories are not easily categorized. They are thoughtful and worth reading. I found I enjoyed them, much to my surprise.......more

I read this book wildly out of order (it is the 12th in the Complete Short Fiction series of books covering Simak's shorter works) because it contains the first of his published short stories, The World of the Red Sun. Since Simak's works aren't chronological in this collection, I Idecided to read t......more