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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''.'
* [[Alternate Self]]: ''The Goblin Reservation''
* [[Backup Twin]]
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: ''[[Way Station]]''. Any of the Earth animals is much closer to humankind than any alien race.
* [[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
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* [[Creator Provincialism]]: Simak often set his stories in Millville, where he was born.
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: Many.
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** The hero, the love interest, the nonhuman sidekick and a bunch of loonies go on a quest, loonies gradually vanish from the party for reasons directly connected to the reason they went on a journey in the first place, yadda yadda yadda, happy ending, true love, and some mystical higher forces were behind all this.
** Goblins. He has a very interesting interpretation of goblins as magic eldritch abominations from other dimensions or planets, with reasons unknown, and morality radically different, and their logic will never be understood by us humans.
* [[Disability Superpower]]: The deaf girl from ''[[Way Station]]'' is pure at heart. [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|Yes, it counts as a superpower]].
* [[Earth That Used to Be Better]]: ''City'''s main theme is the decline and fall of humanity, so there's plenty of the examples along the way. Eventually the earth reverts to its original state, but its masters are now [[Starfish Aliens|sentient, industrious and incomprehensible Ants]], and what will happen to it is a question.
* [[Healing Hands]]: The deaf girl from ''[[Way Station]]'' has this as a result of her innocence.
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* [[Humans Are Special]]: ''[[Way Station]]'' and other stories.
* [[Kill and Replace]]: ''Good Night, Mr. James''. {{spoiler|The duplicate succeeds in killing the original, but finds out that [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|he was poisoned immediately after he was made]].}}
** This ending was [[Lighter and Softer|softened]] when the story was adapted for the original ''[[
* [[Merging Machine]] / [[Tele Frag]]: Mentioned to have happened in ''The Goblin Reservation''.
* [[Monster Clown]]: Subverted. Ulysses from ''[[Way Station]]'' looks like one, but he is a very kind person.
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** In ''City'' the time travel is impossible -- the time there is a string of [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]] moving through it, so any attempt of time travel will simply bring you to parallel world.
* [[Twinmaker]]: ''The Goblin Reservation''.
* [[Our Goblins Are
* [[Psychic Powers]]: ''Time is the Simplest Thing'', ''Ring Around the Sun'', the [[Big Bad]] in ''The World of the Red Sun''...
** Also, in his first story, ''The World of the Red Sun'', the main characters place the [[Time Machine]] on a plane to avoid being [[Tele Frag|TeleFragged]] my mountains or buidings.
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