A collection of short tales by the author of City and Grotto of the Dancing Deer includes the title story, in which God is depicted as an experimental scientist killed by his own creation, and others.

Product Description: Classic stories of science fiction by this Nebula Grandmaster award-winner. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contents: A Death in the House The Big Front Yard Goodnight Mr. James Dusty Zebra Neighbor Over the River & Through the Woods Construction Shack Grotto of the Dancing Deer BACK COVER: ...read more

Product Description: Classic stories of science fiction by this Nebula Grandmaster award-winner. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contents: A Death in the House The Big Front Yard Goodnight Mr. James Dusty Zebra Neighbor Over the River & Through the Woods Construction Shack Grotto of the Dancing Deer BACK COVER: ...read more

The long talks Enoch Wallace, a Civil War veteran, enjoys with interstellar travelers may cease when war threatens the earth and his way station may be closed.

Product Description: This volume assembles four classic stories from the author of "Way Station" and "Project Pope." From time travel to hunting alien pests, from invaders from the fourth dimension to impossible sexless alien biology, Clifford D. Simak plumbs the depths of science and the heights of adventure in these classic tales...read more

Product Description: Like every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops -- even though the natives tried to dissuade him. This thing scared them out of their minds, it really did, and who could say why?

Product Description: SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE WORLD! The pendulum clock struck slowly, its every other chime as usual setting up a sympathetic vibration in the pewter vase that stood upon the mantel. Mr. Chambers got to his feet, strode to the door, opened it and looked out...read more

Product Description: On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone...read more

Product Description: Simak spent most of his professional career working in Minnesota for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, but nowadays he's remembered mostly for his science fiction writing -- novels like Mastodonia (1978), The Visitors (1980), Project Pope (1981), Where the Evil Dwells (1982), Special Deliverance (1982), Highway of Eternity (1986)...read more

Product Description: The chief of protocol said, "Mr. Hudson of -- ah -- Mastodonia." The secretary of state held out his hand. "I'm glad to see you, Mr. Hudson. I understand you've been here several times." "That's right," said Hudson. "I had a hard time making your people believe I was in earnest...read more

Arnold Grant leaned forward in his chair. His face was twisted in fury. "There were plans, weren't there?" he demanded. "There were equations and formulas. Why didn't you bring us some of them?" "I tried," pleaded Wilson. Perspiration stood out on his forehead. The cigarette in his mouth was limp and dead. "One of them was always there. I never could get hold of any papers. I asked questions, but they were too busy to answer. And I couldn't ask too much, because then they would have suspected me." Half a continent away, the men they were speaking of -- the very men that Wilson had been hired to spy upon -- were watching everything that was said. They were not pleased.

Clifford Simak, winner of Hugo, Nebula, Grand Master, and other science fiction awards, was never more clearly a master of modern SF than in this novel of a simple farmer who bridged the gap between humanity and the stars. This powerfully entertaining and thought-provoking work is one of the all-time great favorites of science fiction.