author
Clifford D. Simak
1904–1988
Best known for bringing a warm, humane touch to science fiction, this Wisconsin-born writer imagined futures shaped as much by kindness, curiosity, and rural life as by technology. His stories often blend big ideas with an unusually gentle view of people, aliens, and the unknown.
11 Audiobooks
The Shipshape Miracle
by Clifford D. Simak
The Street That Wasn't There
by Clifford D. Simak, Carl Jacobi
The World That Couldn't Be
by Clifford D. Simak
Message From Mars
by Clifford D. Simak
Second Childhood
by Clifford D. Simak
Project Mastodon
by Clifford D. Simak
The call from beyond
by Clifford D. Simak
Empire
by Clifford D. Simak
Mr. Meek Plays Polo
by Clifford D. Simak
Hellhounds of the Cosmos
by Clifford D. Simak
Mr. Meek—Musketeer
by Clifford D. Simak
About the author
Born in Millville, Wisconsin, in 1904, Clifford D. Simak built a long career as both a journalist and a writer of science fiction and fantasy. He began publishing science fiction in the early 1930s, and over the decades became one of the field’s most distinctive voices, known for thoughtful storytelling rather than spectacle.
Alongside his fiction, he worked for many years in newspaper journalism, including at the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. That steady newsroom career ran in parallel with a remarkable writing life that produced celebrated books such as City and Way Station.
Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, and he was later named the third SFWA Grand Master. He died in 1988, but his work still stands out for its calm imagination, love of small-town landscapes, and belief that even the strangest futures can remain deeply human.