Hellhounds of the Cosmos - Couverture souple

Simak, Clifford D

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 160664369X ISBN 13 : 9781606643693

Editeur : Aegypan, 2009

Synopsis

"The paper graphically described the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by the Horror. Another told of a Terror in the Amazon Valley which had sent the natives down the river in babbling fear."

Simak spent most of his professional career working in Minnesota for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, but nowadays he's remembered mostly for his science fiction writing -- novels like Mastodonia (1978), The Visitors (1980), Project Pope (1981), Where the Evil Dwells (1982), Special Deliverance (1982), Highway of Eternity (1986). But Simak had a long, long career -- as witness this story, which first saw print in 1932, when Simak was 28. You can see that Simak grew a great deal as a writer over his lifetime -- or perhaps the original editor had at it a bit too roughly with his blue pencil. But even so -- it's Simak, and it's got a quality that rises over that . . .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clifford Donald Simak (1904 - 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. Simak became interested in science fiction after reading the works of H. G. Wells as a child. His first contribution to the literature was "The World of the Red Sun," published by Hugo Gernsback in the December 1931 issue of Wonder Stories. Within a year he placed three more stories in Gernsback's pulp magazines and one in Astounding Stories, then edited by Harry Bates. But his only science fiction publication between 1932 and 1938 was "The Creator" (Marvel Tales #4, March-April 1935), a story with religious implications, which was then rare in the genre. Once John W. Campbell, at the helm of Astounding from October 1937, began redefining the field, Simak returned and was a regular contributor to Astounding Science Fiction (as it was renamed in 1938) throughout the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1938-1950). At first, as in the 1939 serial novel Cosmic Engineers, he wrote in the tradition of the earlier "super science" subgenre that E. E. "Doc" Smith perfected, but he soon developed his own style, which is usually described as gentle and pastoral. During this period, Simak also published a number of war and western stories in pulp magazines. His best-known book may be City, a fix-up novel based on short stories with a common theme of mankind's eventual exodus from Earth. Simak continued to produce award-nominated novels throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Aided by a friend, he continued writing and publishing science fiction and later, fantasy into his 80s. He believed that science fiction was not rooted in scientific fact, but was responsible for the failure of the genre to be taken seriously and stated his aim was to make the genre a part of what he called "realistic fiction."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aegypan
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 160664369X
• ISBN 13: 9781606643693
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 60
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible