Simak

There are too many to mention - but Clifford Simak is woefully out of print.

MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

Another good story in Simak's future history, and the first one where the Dogs that are present in the story introductions play a prominent role.

RETRO-REVIEW: City by Clifford D. Simak 2005

He also made use of what he called Simak’s “cool, unadorned style, and later credited Simak with being the major influence on his style.

“Rule 18,” a 1938 Earth-Mars football story by Clifford D. Simak Paul 2010

This is certainly a hit, blockbuster, Hollywood-friendly creation with lots of color and typical Simak world-building.

"The Body Snatchers" and other Alien Pods 2009

Way Station by Clifford D. Simak - I had already discovered that I love his style of writing.

Reader Challenge: Books You'd Like To Read Again, For The First Time 2009

Fortunately, Simak soon gets past this demented vision of a near-future world saved by technological fixes, a dementia common then to SF writers and gurus and politicians alike, and launches into an astonishingly eventful narrative of the next 10,000 years as seen through the eyes of one family and the immortal robot Jenkins, and all told with a weird pastoral serenity that for a kid like me seemed near to godlike.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

It's all there, and, thanks to Simak's skilled hand at the wheel, it's all in place: suave, sibylline, swift.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

Some of the stories in "City" by Clifford Simak (post-human)

Aliens frankwu 2009

That was where I found copies of Edgar Rice Burroughs 'Barsoom novels one summer, and where I was introduced to Clifford Simak, to Poul Anderson, and to many, many others.

MIND MELD: Does The Used Book Market Help or Hurt the Publishing Industry? 2009

Laura J. Mixon has been writing stories since she was eight (her first effort was in crayon with a yarn binding, illustrated), and science fiction novels since she discovered Clifford D. Simak at age eleven (though it took a lot longer than that to sell one).

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009