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I Am Crying All Inside: And Other Stories (Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Vol 1)
I Am Crying All Inside And Other Stories - Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Vol 1 Author:Clifford D. Simak, David W. Wixon (Editor) I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories: The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Vol 1. Ten stories of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be, including the never-before-published “I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air”. Each story includes ... more »an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this series.
Contents:
Clifford D. Simak: Grand Master Indeed! • essay by David W. Wixon
Installment Plan (1959) / novelette by Clifford D. Simak: A work gang shows up on a remote planet to collect the harvest of podars needed for medicine, but the natives would not sell.
I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air (1973) / short story by Clifford D. Simak: After being rebuilt as an alien monster, a human astronaut plans revenge against his alien tormentors. (Originally written in 1973 for Harlan Ellison's un-published anthology The Last Dangerous Visions.)
Small Deer (1965) / short story by Clifford D. Simak: A tinkerer fires up a time machine and learns what killed off the dinosaurs, and may come back.
Ogre (1944) / novelette by Clifford D. Simak: On a planet ruled by intelligent vegetables - music trees, rifle trees, and electro-vines - humans seeking to exploit the resources find themselves exploited.
Gleaners (1960) / novelette by Clifford D. Simak: The put-upon director of Past, Inc. sends out operatives to cherry-pick treasures from the past, until some oddly prescient folk in his office suggest another way.
Madness from Mars (1939) / short story by Clifford D. Simak: The fourth, and only, spaceship to return from Mars holds an insane crew and a Martian "furball".
Gunsmoke Interlude (1952) / short story by Clifford D. Simak
I Am Crying All Inside (1969) / short story by Clifford D. Simak: The smart and rich people of Earth have left, along with their smart machines, leaving behind the rest.
The Call from Beyond (1950) / novelette by Clifford D. Simak
All the Traps of Earth (1960) / novelette by Clifford D. Simak: A runaway robot gains the ability to telekinetically fix any problem, yet cannot fix his own problem: the need to be needed.