Clifford D. Simak
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Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.
He received three Hugo Awards as well as one in Nebula.
The Science Fiction Writers of America named him as its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association named him one of the three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Writing career
Simak became interested in science fiction after reading H. G. Wells' books as an infant. Frank R. Paul's first contribution to literature was "The World of the Sun," published by Hugo Gernsback in the December 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, with one opening illustration by Frank R. Paul. He wrote three more stories in Gernsback's pulp magazines and one in Astounding Stories, which was later edited by Harry Bates. However, "The Creator" was his only science fiction book from 1932 to 1938, the first science fiction book to be published in the United States, as a tale with religious remark was then unusual in the field.
After Astounding Science Fiction (as it was renamed in 1938) during the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938–1955), John W. Campbell, at the helm of Astounding from 1937, started redefining the field (1938–1955). He wrote in the style of E. E. "Doc" Smith's earlier "super science" subgenre at first, but later developed his own style, which is usually described as gentle and pastoral. Simak also published a number of war and western stories in pulp magazines during this period. City, a fix-up book based on short stories on a common theme of humanity's eventual departure from Earth, may be his best-known book.
Simak continued to publish award-nominated books in the 1950s and 1960s. He continued writing and releasing science fiction and fantasy into his 80s, aided by a friend. He believed that science fiction, not grounded in scientific fact, was to blame for the demise of the genre, and that his aim was to make it a part of what he described as "realistic fiction."