From science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, an interstellar adventure of aliens, fairies, and time travel. Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine his chagrin when he turns up at a Wisconsin matter transmission station several weeks later and discovers he’s not only dead but unemployed. During an interstellar mission to investigate rumors of dragon activity, this alternate Maxwell was intercepted by a strange alien race that wanted him to carry knowledge of a remarkable technology back to Earth, and it seems someone does not want the information shared. Suddenly, it’s essential for Maxwell to find his own killer. He enlists the aid of Carol Hampton of the Time College, along with her pet saber-tooth tiger, a ghost with memory issues, and the intelligent Neanderthal Man recently rescued from a prehistoric cooking pot. But the search is pointing them toward the goblins, fairies, and assorted Little Folk living in reservations on campus, and into the dangerous heart of an interspecies blood feud that has been raging for millions of years. Ingeniously inventive and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek, this novel demonstrates multi-award-winning fantasy and science fiction favorite Clifford D. Simak operating at the imaginative peak of his considerable powers.
From science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, an interstellar adventure of aliens, fairies, and time travel. Until the day he was murdered, Professor Peter Maxwell was a respected faculty member of the College of Supernatural Phenomena. Imagine his chagrin when he turns up at a Wisconsin matter transmission station several weeks later and discovers he’s not only dead but unemployed. During an interstellar mission to investigate rumors of dragon activity, this alternate Maxwell was intercepted by a strange alien race that wanted him to carry knowledge of a remarkable technology back to Earth, and it seems someone does not want the information shared. Suddenly, it’s essential for Maxwell to find his own killer. He enlists the aid of Carol Hampton of the Time College, along with her pet saber-tooth tiger, a ghost with memory issues, and the intelligent Neanderthal Man recently rescued from a prehistoric cooking pot. But the search is pointing them toward the goblins, fairies, and assorted Little Folk living in reservations on campus, and into the dangerous heart of an interspecies blood feud that has been raging for millions of years. Ingeniously inventive and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek, this novel demonstrates multi-award-winning fantasy and science fiction favorite Clifford D. Simak operating at the imaginative peak of his considerable powers.
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Exploring peaceful rural landscapes transformed by mysterious cosmic encounters became a hallmark of mid-century speculative fiction. Clifford D. Simak established this distinct pastoral approach by grounding extraordinary alien contact, time travel, and technological breakthroughs within quiet Midwestern settings, as seen in celebrated novels such as Way Station.
Over a writing career spanning more than five decades, Simak produced dozens of novels and over 140 short stories while working concurrently as a full-time journalist. His contributions earned him three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, election as the third SFWA Grand Master, and an inaugural Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Born on August 3, 1904, in Millville, Wisconsin, Simak developed an early interest in speculative fiction after reading the works of H. G. Wells. He began his writing career while working in journalism, publishing his first story, The World of the Red Sun, in the December 1931 issue of Wonder Stories. From 1929 to 1976, newspaper journalism served as his primary vocation, including a long tenure at the Minneapolis Star starting in 1939. Following his retirement from newspaper work, he dedicated himself to full-time fiction writing until his death on April 25, 1988, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Simak became closely identified with pastoral science fiction, frequently placing cosmic anomalies and extraordinary visitors against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin. Rather than emphasizing militarized space warfare or hyper-industrial futures, his stories focus on themes of gentle alien communion, human mortality, nostalgia, and peaceful coexistence among intelligent species. Time travel served as his primary narrative device for introducing otherworldly beings into serene, everyday environments, establishing a contemplative tone across his body of work.
5 books in catalog
Exploring peaceful rural landscapes transformed by mysterious cosmic encounters became a hallmark of mid-century speculative fiction. Clifford D. Simak established this distinct pastoral approach by grounding extraordinary alien contact, time travel, and technological breakthroughs within quiet Midwestern settings, as seen in celebrated novels such as Way Station.
Over a writing career spanning more than five decades, Simak produced dozens of novels and over 140 short stories while working concurrently as a full-time journalist. His contributions earned him three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, election as the third SFWA Grand Master, and an inaugural Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Born on August 3, 1904, in Millville, Wisconsin, Simak developed an early interest in speculative fiction after reading the works of H. G. Wells. He began his writing career while working in journalism, publishing his first story, The World of the Red Sun, in the December 1931 issue of Wonder Stories. From 1929 to 1976, newspaper journalism served as his primary vocation, including a long tenure at the Minneapolis Star starting in 1939. Following his retirement from newspaper work, he dedicated himself to full-time fiction writing until his death on April 25, 1988, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Simak became closely identified with pastoral science fiction, frequently placing cosmic anomalies and extraordinary visitors against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin. Rather than emphasizing militarized space warfare or hyper-industrial futures, his stories focus on themes of gentle alien communion, human mortality, nostalgia, and peaceful coexistence among intelligent species. Time travel served as his primary narrative device for introducing otherworldly beings into serene, everyday environments, establishing a contemplative tone across his body of work.
