num_pages: 320
description: Skirmish collects the ten best stories of Clifford D. Simak, and is a testament to one of the most influential careers in the history of modern science fiction.These ten works, varying in length from short story to novella, represent high points in a career that spans the decades from the 1940s to the present as is one of the longest in the field. Two of the stories, “Desertion” and “Huddling Place,” are from the City series, which won the International Fantasy Award in the 1950s, and four are Hugo Award nominees from the fifties, sixties, and seventies: “The Big Front Yard,” “All the Traps of Earth,” “The Thing in the Stone,” and “The Autumn Land.” Mr. Simak introduces this collection with a short essay on his career as a writer of science fiction, and gives his own assessment of these great stories.
language: English
title: Skirmish: The great short fiction of Clifford D. Simak
titlecomplete: Skirmish: The great short fiction of Clifford D. Simak
genres: Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 102
publisher: Putnam's ; distributed by Berkley Pub. Corp