Clifford D Simak Books in Order

A struggle over a revolutionary power source turns into a fight over who will control the solar system. This is Simak working in a more direct, hard-driving mode than usual.

In this early pulp adventure, men on Earth are caught in a violent struggle reaching in from another dimension. The story is wild, fast, and larger than life.

A disgraced physicist watches his city start to disappear as belief itself turns slippery. Co-written with Carl Jacobi, it is a compact tale of paranoia, unreality, and urban unease.

A mild bookkeeper finds himself mixed up in a rough game of space polo among Saturn's rings. Simak plays the absurd setup for humor and adventure.

Drawn to the edge of known space, a group of humans joins alien engineers trying to stop two universes from colliding. It is early Simak, bigger, pulpier, and full of grand-scale danger.

A lost spaceman returns to an altered Earth carrying truths that different powers would kill to control. Time travel, religion, and hidden futures all press in on his every move.

This classic fix-up novel imagines a far future where dogs and robots tell stories about whether humans ever existed. It is quiet, strange, and one of Simak's best books.

A man who can slip into parallel Earths uncovers a system bigger and stranger than he guessed. Simak uses the adventure to explore change, conformity, and the possibility of starting over.

A rich early collection of Simak's best-known short fiction, including small-town marvels, alien visitors, and wry future puzzles. It is a great sampler of his humane, idea-driven style.

A time-travel experiment opens a road into the age of mammoths, and a few ambitious men decide to found a new nation there. It is the seed of the later novel Mastodonia.

This collection moves from time-displaced refugees to hidden machines and strange frontiers. The stories vary in scale, but they all carry Simak's mix of wonder and unease.

A plantation owner on an alien world hunts the strange creature wrecking his crops and learns the planet is not what he thought. Simak turns a monster hunt into a lesson in ecology.

A compact collection centered on the dark title tale, also known as Good Night, Mr. James. The other stories add time travel, alien contact, and moral trouble.

Shep Blaine explores distant worlds with his mind and comes back carrying an alien presence. Soon he is running from prejudice, power brokers, and the future itself.

When ships vanish near Tycho crater, a lunar prospector digs into the mystery. Simak keeps the scale tight and suspenseful, turning Moon exploration into a clean, clever thriller.

Robots, alien children, doomed bargains, and time travel all show up in this strong collection from Simak's middle period. The stories are varied, but his sympathy for outsiders ties them together.

A shorter selection drawn from Simak's major early stories, with odd neighbors, unsettling futures, and everyday people meeting the impossible. It works well as a quick introduction.

A newspaperman learns that shape-shifting alien spheres are buying up the world one business at a time. Simak turns invasion into a sharp story about power, fear, and everyday corruption.

This abridged selection from The Worlds of Clifford Simak leans into the neighborly side of his science fiction. Small communities, odd visitors, and dry humor do most of the work.

A major robot story anchors this collection of Simak's mid-century short fiction. The pieces mix compassion, unease, and big speculative ideas without ever getting loud.

Civil War veteran Enoch Wallace quietly runs Earth's secret stop on an interstellar transit line until the outside world starts asking questions. This edition presents Simak's classic first-contact novel and its original magazine title.

A slim collection of three stories about vast distances, strange art, and realities that refuse to stay fixed. Even in miniature, Simak keeps the sense of cosmic scale.

A small Wisconsin town is sealed inside an alien barrier, and the flowers at its center may be offering peace or takeover. Simak makes invasion feel local, intimate, and unnervingly polite.

A handpicked Simak sampler with aliens, robots, strange settlers, and one of his best small-town tales. It is an easy place to meet the writer's short fiction.

This best-of collection brings together warm, offbeat stories about families, neighbors, ghosts, and the future sneaking into ordinary life. It is Simak in his most approachable mode.

An astronaut comes home with more than memories, carrying alien presences that change him under pressure. The result is part chase story, part identity puzzle, set on a very strange future Earth.

In a future built around promised resurrection, one man stumbles into the machinery behind a cryonics empire. Simak uses the thriller setup to probe money, faith, and the cost of immortality.

This short collection brings together stories about art, writing, luck, and future technology. Simak keeps the tone intimate even when the ideas get strange.

Professor Peter Maxwell returns home to discover he was murdered a week earlier, and the answer lies among aliens, trolls, ghosts, and time travel. It is one of Simak's happiest blends of fantasy and science fiction.

A reporter is chased by creatures from human imagination and cannot get a straight answer about why. Simak turns the idea into a sly, unpredictable mix of fantasy, satire, and science fiction.

A popular science book for general readers, this traces human origins and early civilization in clear, accessible prose. It shows how well Simak could explain big subjects without fuss.

Edited by Simak, this popular science volume gathers readable pieces on modern discoveries and new ideas. It shows the journalist side of his career as clearly as the novelist.

Almost all of humanity vanishes overnight, leaving the survivors with unnaturally long lives and too much space to think. Simak uses the setup to ask what people become after civilization falls quiet.

Earth has become a planet-sized graveyard, but a journey beyond the memorial walls uncovers renegades, old machines, and questions the dead never settled. It is equal parts ruin story and philosophical adventure.

Four humans explore an eerie, mostly deserted planet where the rules of history and identity keep shifting. The deeper they go, the less certain they are about who is guiding the journey.

Refugees begin pouring in from centuries ahead, and their arrival brings panic, politics, and monsters from the future. Simak turns time travel into a story about responsibility across generations.

A hidden manuscript sends a scholar into the wastelands with a loose band of fellow travelers. Simak blends fantasy, mystery, and road story as the group chases old secrets.

Carter Horton wakes alone on a far planet after a mission goes wrong and finds a world full of dead ends and strange companions. Escape matters, but so does understanding what this place really is.

In a future that has lost much of its technology, a woodsrunner sets out for a place tied to humanity's forgotten reach for the stars. The journey feels half frontier tale, half quiet quest.

A generous retrospective that gathers many of Simak's best short pieces, from robots and portals to ghosts and lonely futures. It is one of the best single-volume guides to his short fiction.

A strange cat-faced being opens paths from rural Wisconsin into prehistory, and wonder quickly turns into politics and greed. Simak uses time travel and dinosaurs to ask who gets to own the past.

In a ravaged parallel world, a young man carries a dangerous book toward London with a strange band of allies. It is a quest story full of ruins, ghosts, and stubborn hope.

Giant black boxes land on Earth and start eating trees, while humans struggle to guess what the visitors want. Simak makes first contact feel baffling, funny, and deeply unsettling.

On a bleak world at the edge of space, robots and humans build a computerized pope to gather all knowledge and settle questions of faith. Then a discovery beyond their world changes the argument.

A professor and a handful of strangers are dropped on an unknown world beside a giant blue cube. To survive, they have to make sense of the planet, each other, and the force that brought them there.

A missing woman draws a band of travelers into the Empty Lands, where old powers and stranger dangers wait. It reads like a quest fantasy with Simak's usual calm, curious streak.

A man who can step through time is swept into a flight across ages and strange worlds. Simak turns that chase into a reflective story about evolution, freedom, and what comes after humanity.

This four-story collection pairs quiet wonder with melancholy, ending on the award-winning Grotto of the Dancing Deer. Simak keeps the scale intimate, even when time and history open wide.

A brief collection of four stories about family, memory, childhood, and time out of joint. The tone is gentler than grim, even when the ideas are unsettling.

Seven stories take readers to junkyards, work camps, alien landscapes, and places where reality feels slightly off. It is a solid late collection with plenty of Simak's strange humor.

This later collection gathers some of Simak's quieter, more reflective short fiction. Expect odd inventions, missed chances, and a lingering sense that reality is only partly understood.

Aliens, neighbors, grief, and time trouble weave through this compact collection. The stories are varied, but each one carries Simak's trademark kindness toward bewildered people.

From cosmic creation myths to runaway robots and hard choices on distant worlds, this collection shows how wide Simak's short fiction could roam. The ideas are big, the storytelling plain and direct.

This collection mixes frontier adventure, future decay, and moral puzzles, anchored by the memorable title story. It shows Simak's knack for asking large questions without losing the human angle.

Denied another extension of life after five hundred years, a powerful man decides to strike back. This short piece blends longevity, resentment, and a dark little twist.

After a generation ship stops at last, only one man dares finish the mission. Simak uses the premise to ask what happens when a society forgets why it began.

Four early tales deliver lost streets, prehistoric time travel, cosmic conflict, and an alien ecology puzzle. It is pulpy Simak, energetic and full of wild ideas.

This earlier version of Time and Again sends a long-lost spaceman back to a changed Earth, where time war, religion, and destiny collide. It has the same big ideas, with a different ending.

A strong opening volume of Simak's short fiction, moving from robots and strange worlds to grief, memory, and moral puzzles. Even the saddest stories keep his plainspoken warmth.

These stories show Simak's range, from junkyards and back roads to portals opening in the middle of ordinary life. The title piece is classic small-town cosmic wonder.

A lively collection of ghosts, future jobs, AI, hidden cities, and frontier myths. Simak balances whimsy and melancholy without losing his steady storytelling touch.

A warm but eerie collection where alien visitors, odd children, and frontier mysteries drift into everyday life. The title story is one of Simak's gentlest first-contact pieces.

A varied collection that mixes early space adventure with later, more thoughtful stories about settlers, outsiders, and impossible finds. Simak's curiosity about other worlds is everywhere.

This set ranges from dark suspense to rueful humor, with robots, family stories, and lonely futures. It includes one of Simak's sharpest and most unsettling tales.

A strong collection built around memory, loss, and wonder, ending with the award-winning title story. Simak moves easily from early pulp adventure to quieter, more reflective science fiction.

This volume gathers stories about retirement, second chances, future worlds, and people nudged into the unexpected. Simak keeps the ideas big and the human scale small.

These stories bring children, ghosts, Martian messages, lost time, and small-town unease into the same orbit. The mood stays humane even when the unknown gets unsettling.

In a future that has stretched human life to absurd lengths, renewal stops looking simple. Simak uses the idea to ask what growing old really means when death has nearly been beaten.

This collection gathers sharp, varied stories about salesmen, explorers, odd visitors, and time travel gone sideways. It is Simak at his most playful and uncanny.

A collection of Simak's early magazine work, where Mars crews, strange visitors, and raw pulp danger lead the way. You can watch his imagination taking shape in real time.

A late-career collection that moves from miracle ships and remote planets to time slips and quiet immigrant tales. These stories show Simak's gift for mixing cosmic ideas with ordinary people.

A wide-ranging collection that reaches from Simak's first published story to later tales of alien contact, war, and buried mysteries. The pieces are brisk, curious, and full of strange turns.