Clifford D. Simak

Jenkins was a robot. He was built to be the perfect worker, tireless and uncomplaining....

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century....

The hunt for his killer leads a dead professor of supernatural phenomena into the perilous intrigues of aliens, fairy folk, and time travelers in this classic of science fiction....

Twenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore....

People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water....

Space travel has been abandoned in the 22nd century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and inconvenient - and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the monopoly....

Hiram Taine is a handyman who can fix anything. When he isn't fiddling with his tools, he is roaming through the woods with his dog, Towser, as he has done for as long as he can remember....

Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It's been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it takes him right back to his 20s....

This early novella by Clifford Simak includes many elements which have become staples in science fiction literature: alien invasion, time travel and the multiverse....

An expedition to Landro encounters a deadly plague, and the serum they need is in the hands of the planet's inhabitants....

What if you woke up one morning on Earth...and no one else was there? That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans....

Mr. Jonathan Chambers senses that something is very wrong. The walk he takes every night is suddenly, slightly shorter. All around him things are vanishing....

Robot believers at the far end of the galaxy endeavor to create a true religion, but their efforts could be shattered by a shocking revelation....

X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction....

A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must somehow unravel a confounding alien technology - or else surrender himself to a host of incomprehensible horrors....

Following a conversation with a talking slot machine, Professor Edward Lansing finds himself mysteriously transported to a tavern on a long and empty road....

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.

Author Jay Vickers would like nothing more than to be left alone so he can finish his next book. But "there's something strange going on," as his peculiar neighbor, Horton Flanders, says.

Ten tales of wonder, danger, and the future—including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story—from the science fiction Grand Master....

Narrated by Joseph Tabler, Science Fiction Stories of the Future from the Past consists of works by M. L. Campbell, Elizabeth W. Bellamy, Clifford D. Simak, William Harben, Charles L. Fontenay, and Harlan Ellison. All stories are in the public domain....