Works of Clifford D. Simak Volume Four

A collection of masterpieces from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction who "e;has never written a bad book"e; (Theodore Sturgeon). The Big Front Yard and Other Stories: Handyman Hiram likes things he can understand and fix. But he has a true mystery on his hands when a new ceiling appears in his basement a ceiling with the ability to repair televisions so they're better than before. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, "e;The Big Front Yard"e; headlines a collection featuring some of the most lyrical science fiction ever published. Time Is the Simplest Thing A Hugo Award Finalist: Space travel has been deemed too dangerous and expensive, and now the Fishhook company holds a monopoly on interstellar exploration, using telepaths who can expand their minds throughout the universe. But when Fishhook employee Shepherd Blaine is implanted with a copy of an alien consciousness, he becomes something more than human and soon there is no safe place for him to hide. The Goblin Reservation: Professor Peter Maxwell of the College of Supernatural Phenomena is murdered but he's even more dismayed when he turns up at a matter transmission station several weeks later and discovers he's not only dead, but also unemployed. This "e;alternate"e; Maxwell soon learns he's being used as a vessel by a strange alien race to carry knowledge of remarkable technology back to Earth and it seems someone does not want the information shared . . . The third author to be honored as a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), Clifford D. Simak also received three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, an International Fantasy Award, and a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.