Other Worlds, Times, and Places: Clifford D. Simak
(August 3, 1904 - April 25, 1988)
First Published Novel: The Creator (first magazine publication 1935, first book publication 1946)
Final Novel: Highway of Eternity (1986)
Simak started writing for science fiction pulp magazines in 1931, but dropped out of the field by 1933. The only science-fiction piece that he published between 1933 and 1937 was "The Creator" (Marvel Tales #4, March-April 1935), a notable story with religious implications, which was at the time a rarity in the genre of science fiction.
Gentle and Pastoral
Simaks narrative style, often described as gentle and pastoral, was
very much different than most SF of the time. Many of his
sories take place in rural settings where a curious alien tourist and a human are sitting on a country porch engaged in conversation
over a cold beer instead of a hostile alien invasion force battling desperate and heroic human defenders.
As a young teenager, I discovered three of Simaks books while impatiently waiting for more Andre Norton books to come out. The Werewolf Pinciple, Way Station, and Goblin Reservation. These three fantastic stories opened my eyes to the fact that there was more to SF than just Norton.
Novels by Clfford D. Simak
The Creator (1946)
Cosmic Engineers (1950)
Time and Again (1951) aka First He Died
Empire (1951)
Ring Around the Sun (1952)
Time Is the Simplest Thing (1961) aka The Fisherman
Trouble with Tycho (1961)
They Walked Like Men (1962)
Way Station 
(1963)
All Flesh Is Grass (1965)
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (1967)
The Werewolf Principle (1967)
So Bright the Vision (1968)
The Goblin Reservation (1968)
Out of Their Minds (1969)
Destiny Doll (1971)
Prehistoric Man (1971)
A Choice of Gods 
Cemetery World (1973)
Our Children's Children (1974)
Enchanted Pilgrimage (1975)
Shakespeare's Planet (1976)
A Heritage of Stars (1977)
The Fellowship of the Talisman (1978)
Mastodonia (1978)
Catface (1979)
The Visitors (1980)
Project Pope (1981)
Special Deliverance (1982)
Where the Evil Dwells (1982)
Highway of Eternity (1986)
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