Talk:Clifford D. Simak

message: What ethnicity was his surname? Badagnani 22:32, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any names that it is etymologically connected to? 198.177.27.19 (talk) 06:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Simek is apparently a 'pet form' of "Simon" in Czech. Radioflux (talk) 00:26, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname 

message: The article says that "Another idea often found in the stories is the idea that there is no past time for a time traveler to go to." and cites Time and Again as an example. But that book is, with respect to time travel, a pretty standard story, where people go back in order to attempt to change the future. Is this an exception? --NE2 06:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Which Time and Again do they mean? There is a Simak novel by that title, and a Jack Finney, that I know of. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 20:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be Time and Again (Clifford Simak novel) (1951), obviously. — Loadmaster (talk) 21:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Time travel?

message: Have any of Clifford D. Simak's works been dramatized for television or cinema?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.177.27.13 (talk) 08:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The story "Goodnight, Mr. James" was adapted into the Outer Limits episode The Duplicate Man.  I remember once reading a Simak quote to the effect that "Goodnight Mr. James" was (very uncharacteristically) one of the only stories he ever wrote that employed violence -- and, consequently the only one that was ever adapted for TV or film. 70.29.14.52 (talk) 19:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If the quote is authentic, then it would be incorrect. His novel Time and Again contains several incidents of violence, including the main character being hit and knocked out with a metal wrench. — Loadmaster (talk) 20:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I'm pretty sure I've got the gist of the quote correct.  But it's quite possible Simak was speaking off-the-cuff, and misremembering, exaggerating or simply not considering EVERYTHING in his published oeuvre.  (As well, the violence in "Goodnight Mr James" is *much* heavier than a bop on the head with a wrench.)  Anyway, a similar (sourced) quote now appears in the article, though I seem to remember it from an interview rather than a book intro.   70.27.1.113 (talk) 06:32, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dramatized for Television or Cinema 

message: The write-up about City is incorrect. In City, all of the humans leave Earth voluntarily before the ants take over, by re-embodying themselves in the form of creatures on Jupiter whose intensity of experience is vastly greater than that of humans, and hence they wind up preferring to live in that form. Some of the dogs go with them, but only some. The tool-using ant civilization collapses just as it is about to encompass the last remaining patch of Earth, and then crumbles away. The story is actually told by sentient dogs, sitting around campfires and talking of ancient mysterious things such as Men and Cities. There is not a time travel theme in City.
Joseph McCord
lycodont@hal-pc.org  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.150.254.91 (talk) 23:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  City 

message: A minor character in Simak's Time and Again is an old man in Bridgeport, Connecticut (in the then-future time of 1977) who called himself "Old Cliff". It's an obvious self-reference to Clifford Simak himself. The character even mentions having written a story about destiny in his younger days, a self-reference to the novel itself. — Loadmaster (talk) 21:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Time and Again'' 

message: "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine," is a phrase misattributed to Arthur Stanley Eddington.  To whom, then, should it be attributed? Scott Johnson (talk) 11:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps Haldane; see here. Mike Christie (talk) 11:59, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whose quote, then? 

message: "After explaining what themes he avoids - no large-scale alien invasions, no space wars, no empire sagas - he states"
He avoids NO space wars? Shouldn't it be: "he avoids space wars"? I'm not a native English speaker, but this sentence seems to be wrong. 08:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double negative 

message: please check the Out of Our Minds link, since (that was funny!) redirects to a certain "Melissa Auf der Maur" wiki page...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.204.114.65 (talk) 07:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  bad link 

message: There is/are one novel and four short stories of Simak's available at Gutenberg.org.  I know Wiki shouldn't become a "link farm", yet a lot of readers wouldn't think to check Gutenberg.  For now, I put in a single External Link to his Gutenberg search page.  That makes the link valid if works come and go.  Is that OK?  Clayton Emery  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.37.171.36 (talk) 18:32, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright-free works at Gutenberg 

message: I recall reading, years ago, a Clifford Simak story about vacation lake homes being built in quantity and available at a very low price, and they turn out to be in some kind of alternate dimensionality that doesn't correspond to the local geography. It turns out that an alien was sent to Earth to solve a big problem, and was trying to solve the wrong problem. I cannot find any reference to this story here or elsewhere. Does anyone else recognize this? jaknouse (talk) 03:31, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alien Vacation Homes 

message: I take it he called Agnes Kuchenberg "Kay"? --Haruo (talk) 07:15, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  His wife Kay 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Cosmic Engineers was first published in book form in 1950, but was serialized in Astounding in 1939, so the language in the works section ("From 1950 to 1986 Clifford Simak wrote over 30 novels") needs tweaking.  I'm hesitant to make it just "From 1939 to 1986", since there was a gap for ten years.  Thanks for doing the biblio split by the way; an improvement. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 00:57, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of novels 

message: Multiple YouTube clips, including from a 1971 interview with Simak, pronounce the name as /'sɪmæk/ rather than /'sɪmək/. It's possible that the provided source for the pronunciation is in error. Chernorizets (talk) 11:09, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name pronunciation