I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories
And Other Stories
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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. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same.
Along with the other stories in this collection, “I Am Crying All Inside” is a compact marvel—a picture of an impossible reality that is not so different from our own.
Also included in this volume is the newly published “I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air,” originally written for Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Visions.™
Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this ebook.
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Release date
October 20, 2015 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781504012652
- File size: 619 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781504012652
- File size: 1765 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from August 24, 2015
The first volume in this ambitious series, which promises to assemble award-winning SFWA Grand Master Simak’s entire short fiction catalogue, offers 10 iconic stories from the 1950s, including one never before published. Simak’s frequently revisited themes of first contact and what it means to be human stand at the forefront of many of the stories here, examined through the plant-based intelligence of “Ogre,” the misfit robots and humans left behind in the previously unpublished title story, and the motivations of aliens who’ve saved an injured human explorer by placing his mind in an alien body in “I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way up in the Air.” “Gleaners” and “Small Deer” explore conflicts created by time-traveling explorers. Simak walks a line between SF and horror with “Madness from Mars,” about the mysterious death of the crew on an expedition to Mars, and the almost Lovecraftian “The Call from Beyond.” The oddball here is the most commercial story, “Gunsmoke Interlude,” a western with a twist ending. This volume contains a smashing selection of excellent stories whose sophistication may surprise younger readers, even as they remind more seasoned fans of some of the best of Simak’s post-WWII work.
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