Clifford D. Simak's Sci-Fi Short Stories

(Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all the appearances in print of these stories, just of the story titles with some extra information based on my personal collection. Some stories had title changes after their first appearance in print, and I've noted all that I'm aware of. A guide to the shorthand for Simak collection names appears at the end of the list. Anthologies that contain a Simak story in addition to other authors' works are also noted here if I own them. Some stories have only ever appeared in print once in magazines, so in these cases, the issue is noted. For a marvelous compendium of practically every appearance of Simak's short science fiction, visit Scott Henderson's "The Science Fiction Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak" site at http://www.falseducks.com/simak.)

Aesop (Astounding Dec.'47) (City)
All the Traps of Earth (ATE) (Skirmish) (Best) (Creator)
...And the Truth Shall Make You Free (Future March'53) see The Answers
The Answers (aka ...And the Truth Shall Make You Free) (Strangers) (Creator) (EL)
The Asteroid of Gold (History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1926-35)
Auk House (Brother)
The Autumn Land (Author's Choice 4, ed. by Harry Harrison) (Skirmish) (U.K. Best) (AL)

Bathe Your Bearings in Blood see Skirmish
Beachhead (aka You'll Never Go Home Again) (Award Science Fiction Reader) (Strangers)
The Big Front Yard (Worlds) (Skirmish) (Over) (CG) (a Hugo Award winner)
The Birch Clump Cylinder (Del Rey Best Science Fiction #4) (MP) (PU)
Brother (DAW Best Science Fiction 1978) (Brother)
Buckets of Diamonds (CG) (EL)
Byte Your Tongue! (Stellar #6) (IMM)

The Call From Beyond (Space Magicians) (EL)
Carbon Copy (Worlds) (Other) (EL)
Census (City)
City (City)
The Civilization Game (Mind Partner) (CG)
Clerical Error (Astounding Aug.'40)
Condition of Employment (ATE)
Construction Shack (DAW '74) (OFF) (Over)
Contraption (Strangers) (AL)
Courtesy (Astounding Aug.'51) (adapted as an X-Minus-1 radio play) (AL)
The Creator (Marvel Tales March-April'35) (chapbook by Crawford Press ’46) (Creator) (also reprinted in a 1981 Locus Press chapbook with appreciations by other authors honoring Simak at a World Fantasy Convention) (Note--Some sources refer to The Creator as a novel, but in my opinion, it is far too short for that designation.)
Crying Jag (ATE) (Best) (PU)

Day of Truce (Nightmare Age) (U.K. Best)
A Death in the House (Judith Merril Best Science Fiction #5) (Over) (U.K. Best)
Death Scene (Worlds) (Other) (Creator)
Desertion (City) (Skirmish)
Drop Dead (ATE) (adapted as an X-Minus-1 radio play)
Dusty Zebra (Worlds) (Other) (Over)

Earth for Inspiration (The Coming of the Robots)
Epilog (City) (only in later editions, as it was written long after the other stories)
Eternity Lost (The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology) (Asimov's Great #11) (EL)

The Fence (ABC of SF) (Strangers)
Final Gentleman (6 Great Short Sci Fi Novels) (U.K. Best)
Founding Father (Worlds) (Other) (Best) (EL)
Full Cycle (The Original Science Fiction Stories Nov'55) (WWE)

Galactic Chest (SBV)
The Gleaners (Worlds of If March'60) (AL)
The Golden Bugs (SBV)
The Ghost of a Model T (Skirmish) (IMM)
Good Night, Mr. James (ATE) (Skirmish) (Over) (adapted as the Outer Limits episode "The Duplicate Man")
Green Thumb (Worlds) (Other) (IMM)
The Grotto of the Dancing Deer (Analog Writer's Choice) (MP) (Over) (a Hugo and Nebula Award winner)

Hellhounds of the Cosmos (Astounding June'32)
Hermit of Mars (Astounding June'39) (CG)
Hobbies (City)
Honorable Opponent (Worlds)
Horrible Example (CG) (PU)
How-2 (5 Tales from Tomorrow) (EL) (adapted as an X-Minus-1 radio play)
Huddling Place (City) (Skirmish)
Hunch (Astounding July'43) (CG)
Hunger Death (Astounding Oct.'38)

I Am Crying All Inside (Souls in Metal) (IMM)
Idiot's Crusade (Worlds) (Other)
I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up In the Air (this is an unpublished story that will supposedly appear in Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions, if that ever gets done)
Immigrant (Best) (Strangers) (IMM)
Infiltration (Science Fiction Stories July'43) (PU)
Installment Plan (ATE)

Jackpot (Worlds) (AL) (EL)
Junkyard (Galaxy May'53) (OFF) (adapted as an X-Minus-1 radio play)

Kindergarten (Galaxy July'53) (Strangers) (Brother) (EL)

Leg. Forst. (SBV)
Limiting Factor (Possible Worlds of Science Fiction)
Lobby (Astounding April'44)
The Loot of Time (aka SOS in Time) (Alien Earth)
The Lost Street see The Street That Wasn't There
Lulu (Worlds) (Best) (adapted as an X-Minus-1 radio play)

Madness from Mars (Alien Worlds) (U.K. Best)
The Marathon Photograph (MP) (Threads of Time)
Masquerade (aka Operation Mercury) (CG)
Message from Mars (Planet Stories Fall'43)
Mirage (aka Seven Came Back) (reprinted from Amazing Stories in Fantastic Stories May'66) (Strangers) (OFF) (This story has appeared under two different titles -- as Mirage in the anthologies and as Seven Came Back in magazines.)
Mr. Meek--Musketeer (Planet Stories Summer'44)
Mr. Meek Plays Polo (The Infinite Arena)
The Money Tree (Creator)
Mutiny on Mercury (Wonder Stories March'32) (PU)

Neighbor (Worlds) (Best) (Over) (IMM)
New Folks' Home (Best) (PU)
Nine Lives (Short Stories-A Man’s Magazine Dec’57 in U.S. and Aug'58 in U.K.)
No Life of Their Own (ATE)

The Observer (OFF) (EL)
Ogre (OFF)
Operation Mercury see Masquerade
Operation Stinky (Worlds)
Over the River and Through the Woods (Science Fiction Greats #19) (Brother) (Over)

Paradise (City)
Party Line (Destinies Nov./Dec.'78) (Creator)
Physician to the Universe (Fantastic Stories March'63) (PU)
A Pipeline to Destiny (HKLPLOD #4 Summer'63)
Project Mastodon (ATE) (adapted as an X-Minus-1 radio play)

The Questing of Foster Adams (Fantastic Universe Sci Fi Aug./Sept.'53)

Retrograde Evolution (Strangers)
Reunion on Ganymede (Creator)
Rim of the Deep (Futures to Infinity)
Rule 18 (AL)

Second Childhood (Galaxy Feb.'51)
Senior Citizen (Del Rey Best Science Fiction #5) (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct.'75)
Seven Came Back see Mirage
Shadow of Life (Astounding March'43)
Shadow Show (Strangers) (PU)
Shadow World (5 Unearthly Visions) (OFF)
The Shipshape Miracle (Worlds of IF Jan.'63)
Shotgun Cure (Best from F&SF #11) (Creator) (U.K. Best)
The Simple Way (aka The Trouble With Ants) (Fantastic July'66) (City)
The Sitters (ATE) (Skirmish) (U.K. Best)
Skirmish (aka Bathe Your Bearings in Blood) (Skirmish) (Strangers)
Small Deer (Galaxy Oct.'65) (U.K. Best) (IMM) (PU)
So Bright the Vision (SBV)
SOS in Time see The Loot of Time
The Space Beasts (Astonishing Stories April'40)
Spacebred Generations see Target Generation
The Spaceman's Van Gogh (The Original Science Fiction Stories March'56) (WWE)
Spaceship in a Flask (Astounding July'41)
The Street That Wasn't There (aka The Lost Street) (with Carl Jacobi) (Avon Fantasy Reader #13)
Sunspot Purge (Astounding Nov.'40) (U.K. Best) (EL)

Target Generation (aka Spacebred Generations) (Strangers)
The Thing in the Stone (Skirmish) (Creator) (U.K. Best)
To Walk a City's Street (DAW Best Science Fiction 1973)
Tools (Treasury of Science Fiction, ed. by Groff Conklin)
The Trouble With Ants see The Simple Way

Univac: 2200 (Frontiers 1)
Unsilent Spring (with Richard Simak) (Stellar #2)

The Voice in the Void (Wonder Stories Quarterly Spring'32)

The Whistling Well (Dark Forces) (MP)
The World of the Red Sun (Isaac Asimov's Before the Golden Age) (Wonder Stories Dec.'31) (this was Simak's first published story)
The World That Couldn't Be (The World That Couldn't Be) (OFF)
Worlds Without End (WWE)
Worrywart (Galaxy Sept.'53) (PU)

You'll Never Go Home Again see Beachhead

GUIDE TO NOTATIONS FOR COLLECTIONS (Some have only been published in Britain):
AL = THE AUTUMN LAND and other stories (British)
ATE = ALL THE TRAPS OF EARTH
Best = BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK
Brother = BROTHER and other stories (British)
City = CITY (a collection of linked short stories originally published separately in magazines)
CG = THE CIVILISATION GAME and other stories (British)
Creator = THE CREATOR and other stories (British)
EL = ETERNITY LOST: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK VOLUME I
IMM = IMMIGRANT and other stories (British)
MP = THE MARATHON PHOTOGRAPH and other stories (British)
OFF = OFF-PLANET (British)
Other = OTHER WORLDS OF CLIFFORD SIMAK (an abbreviated version of The Worlds of Clifford Simak)
Over = OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS and other stories
PU = PHYSICIAN TO THE UNIVERSE: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK VOLUME II
Skirmish = SKIRMISH: THE GREAT SHORT FICTION OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK
SBV = SO BRIGHT THE VISION and other stories
Strangers = STRANGERS IN THE UNIVERSE
U.K. Best = BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF CLIFFORD D. SIMAK (British)
Worlds = THE WORLDS OF CLIFFORD SIMAK
WWE = WORLDS WITHOUT END and other stories

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