Miscellaneous Clifford D. Simak War Stories,
Western Stories, and Non-fiction

(Note: Although mainly a science fiction writer, Simak produced a small number of war and western stories for pulp magazines.)

AIR WAR STORIES
A Bomb for No. 10 Downing (Sky Fighters Sept.'42)
A Hero Must Not Die (Sky Raiders June'43)
Green Flight, Out! (Army-Navy Flying Stories Fall'43)
Guns on Guadalcanal (Air War Fall'43)
War is Personal (Army-Navy Flying Stories Vol. 4 No. 3, Winter'44 in U.S. and American Eagles Aug.'45 in U.K.)

WESTERN STORIES
Barb Wire Brings Bullets (Ace High Western Stories Nov.'45)
Cactus Colts (Lariat Story Magazine July'44)
Fighting Doc of Bushwack Basin (.44 Western Magazine Nov.'44)
Good Nesters are Dead Nesters (.44 Western magazine July'45)
Gravestone Rebels Ride by Night (Big Book Western Magazine Oct.'44) (some bibliographies have mistakenly listed "Pilgrim Ramrod for Hell's Range," a story by a different author in the same issue, as Simak's)
The Gunsmoke Drummer Sells a War (Ace High Western Stories Jan.'46)
Gunsmoke Interlude (Ten Story Western Oct’52) (Physician to the Universe: The Collected Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume II) (the Coleman Clay character featured in this story may not be Simak's personal creation)
The Hangnoose Army Rides to Town (Ace High Western Stories Sept.'45)
No More Hides and Tallow (Lariat Story Magazine March'46)
The Reformation of Hangman's Gulch (Big Book Western Magazine Dec.'44) (Physician to the Universe: The Collected Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume II)
Smoke Killer (Lariat Story Magazine May'44)
Trail City's Hot-Lead Crusaders (New Western Magazine Sept.'44) (Westerns of the 40's: Classics from the Great Pulps, ed. by Damon Knight)
Way for the Hangtown Rebel (Ace High Western Stories May'45) (Eternity Lost: The Collected Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume I)
When it's Hangnoose Time in Hell (.44 Western Magazine April'46)

NON-FICTION BY OR ABOUT SIMAK
Simak interview (Amazing Stories Feb.'80)
Simak's foreward to The Future City anthology, ed. by Roger Elwood
Carl Jacobi--An Appreciation, includes a contribution by Simak about this horror/fantasy author with whom he co-authored the short story "The Street That Wasn't There"
BIFROST magazine of France put out a special Simak bibliography issue in 2001 guest-edited by Pierre-Paul Durastanti (elvelyn@club-internet.fr)
Clifford D. Simak--Pastoral Spacefarer, A Working Bibliography by Phil Stephensen-Payne, Galactic Central Bibliographies for the Avid Reader, Volume 39 (http://www.philsp.cwc.net) available in U.S. from Chris Drumm Books at P.O. Box 445, Polk City, Iowa 50226-0445 (mailto:Cdrummbks@aol.com)
Clifford Simak--Reader's Guide to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Vol. 59, by Robert J. Ewald
Clifford D. Simak--A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, Muriel R. Becker, 1980
Seekers of Tomorrow, by Sam Moskowitz (has a chapter on Simak)
Simak's introduction to Nebula Award Stories #6, 1971, which he edited
A DVD with a short interview of Simak can be ordered at http://dmznyc.com/html/cssf%20films.1.html

(Note: The following are mostly textbook-style publications written or edited by Simak)
The Solar System: Our New Front Yard, 1962
From Atoms to Infinity (ed.), 1965
Trilobite, Dinosaur, and Man: The Earth's Story, 1966
Wonder and Glory: The Story of the Universe, 1969
The March of Science (edited by Simak and includes an article by him), 1971
Prehistoric Man, 1971

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