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[[File:Clifford Simak WS 3112.jpg|thumb|300px|Clifford Simak, as shown in ''Wonder Stories'', December 1931.]]
'''Clifford Donald Simak''' is a well-known [[Science Fiction]] writer. His most famous novels are ''City'', ''The Goblin Reservation'' and ''[[Way Station]]''; his short story "Huddling Place" appeared in ''The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1''.
His works tend to be soft according to [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]], as he's concentrating on characters and story, not on tech, but he doesn't [[You Fail Physics Forever|fail physics forever]]. He tends to be more idealistic than cynical.
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What can be said in addition? Let's just say that [[Isaac Asimov]] was his [[Ascended Fanboy]].
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* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]]: ''[[Way Station]]''. Aliens generally find human food disgusting if not poisonous. Ulysses is an exception; he comes from a species that can live anywhere and eat anything and thinks that Earth coffee is actually the best brew in the Universe.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: The premise of the novel ''Out of Their Minds''.'
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* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: ''The Goblin Reservation'' plays it straight. Magical creatures turn out to have been engineered by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]].
* [[Cloning Blues]]: Duplicates in ''Good Night, Mr. James'' are treated as legally and morally expendable. {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|The main character's a duplicate]].}}
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* [[Creator Provincialism]]: Simak often set his stories in Millville, where he was born.
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: Many.
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