A Death in the House and Other Stories
β Scribed by Clifford D. Simak
- Book ID
- 113820352
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504037341
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β¦ Synopsis
Ten thrilling and intriguing tales of space travel, war, and alien encounters from the multiple Hugo Award -winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.
From Frank Herbert's Dune to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to Philip K. Dick's stories of bizarre visions of a dystopian future, the latter half of the twentieth century produced some of the finest examples of speculative fiction ever published. Yet no science fiction author was more highly regarded than Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, winner of numerous honors, including the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
This magnificent compendium of stories, written during science fiction's golden age, highlights Simak at his very best, combining ingenious concepts with his trademark humanism and exploring strange visitations, remarkable technologies, and humankind's destiny in the possible worlds of tomorrow. Whether it's an irascible old man's discovery of...
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