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Clifford D. Simak — Stories

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  1. Mr. Meek—Musketeer - (1)
    Mr. Meek Musketeer By CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Adventure flamed in Mr. Meek's timorous heart, the surge of battle and singing blades. And so, with…
  2. Mr. Meek—Musketeer - (2)
    They looked pained, rose reluctantly. "I suppose we shouldn't have expected that you would," said the Reverend Brown bitingly. The Silver M…
  3. Mr. Meek—Musketeer - (3)
    Stiffy backed away. But Meek reached out and grasped his arm. "Come on. It's the only way, Stiffy. We have to get there and the Prowler can…
  4. The World That Couldn't Be - (1)
    Illustrated by GAUGHAN Like every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops even though he was aware…
  5. The World That Couldn't Be - (2)
    Duncan gathered wood and built a fire in the lee of a thorn-bush thicket. Sipar waded out with the canteens and thrust them at arm's length…
  6. The World That Couldn't Be - (3)
    Sipar finally got up and began to range along the stream. Duncan sat up and watched. Scared to death, he thought, and yet it stayed with me…
  7. The World That Couldn't Be - (4)
    He lay back, propped on an elbow. It was evident that he could do nothing about the buried boulder. If he was going to do anything, his pro…
  8. Second Childhood - (1)
    Illustrated by DON HUNTER Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been m…
  9. Second Childhood - (2)
    "When you get it done," said Young, "I have some other things in mind." "Other things?" The technician looked wildly about, as if seeking s…
  10. The Street That Wasn't There - (1)
    Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: This et…
  11. The Street That Wasn't There - (2)
    Perhaps if he thought of how his neighbor's house should look, it too might right itself. But Mr. Chambers was very weary. Too weary to thi…
  12. Hellhounds of the Cosmos - (1)
    Weird are the conditions of the interdimensional struggle faced by Dr. White's ninety-nine men. The paper had gone to press, graphically de…
  13. Hellhounds of the Cosmos - (2)
    "But, man, how do you know you can do it?" The doctor's eyes gleamed and his fingers reached out to press a bell. A servant appeared almost…
  14. Hellhounds of the Cosmos - (3)
    Ouglat, with every line of his face distorted with fear, flung the weapon from him, and turning, fled clumsily down the moor, with Mal Shaf…
  15. Project Mastodon - (1)
    By Clifford D. Simak The chief of protocol said, "Mr. Hudson of ah Mastodonia." The secretary of state held out his hand. "I'm glad to see…
  16. Project Mastodon - (2)
    But that would have meant a bargain, perhaps a very hard one, and sharing with someone who had contributed nothing but the money. And there…
  17. Project Mastodon - (3)
    He could see it all: The materialization of the fleets; the swift, devastating blow, then the instantaneous retreat into the fastnesses of…
  18. The Call from Beyond - (1)
    Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself restless forever with an ultimat…
  19. The Call from Beyond - (2)
    Of course, if one knew one was a mutant, one would never say a thing like that. And a mutant, knowing himself a mutant, never would point o…
  20. The Call from Beyond - (3)
    "You know what this hormone is," said West smoothly, trying to make it sound as if he himself might know it. "No," said Belden shortly. "Da…
  21. The Shipshape Miracle
    The castaway was a wanted man but he didn't know how badly he was wanted! If Cheviot Sherwood ever had believed in miracles, he believed in…
  22. Message from Mars - (1)
    Fifty-five pioneers had died on the "bridge of bones" that spanned the Void to the rusty plains of Mars. Now the fifty-sixth stood on the r…
  23. Message from Mars - (2)
    I hope he doesn't make any trouble, Scott told himself. It was bad enough just to have him along. Bad enough to have this added responsibil…
  24. Message from Mars - (3)
    Hugh came up with Scott, slid the bag of roots to the ground and sat upon it. He nodded at the building across the desert. "That's the nerv…
  25. Mr. Meek Plays Polo - (1)
    Mr. Meek was having his troubles. First, the educated bugs worried him; then the welfare worker tried to stop the Ring Rats' feud by enlist…
  26. Mr. Meek Plays Polo - (2)
    Meek shrugged his shoulders, almost upsetting himself. The bugs had started the game and Meek craned forward cautiously, watching eagerly,…
  27. Mr. Meek Plays Polo - (3)
    But if Thirty-seven won it wouldn't be his any longer. It would be Craney's. He'd just made a bet with Craney and there were plenty of witn…
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