Without Simak, science fiction would have been without its most humane element, its most humane spokesman for the wisdom of the ordinary person and the value of life lived close to the land.

I never heard a bad word about him but only universal approval and approbation... [I have tried to] imitate his easy and uncluttered style. I think I have succ…

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

An untold time ago, there was a well-founded perception that the human race would end and that something else must take its place. Why must something else take…