Clifford D. Simak

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3rd 1904 - April 25th 1988) was an author states-unien of Science-fiction. Wire of farmers, its modest origins will model the majority of the characters of its novels. Its favorite topics are nature and the Robot S anthropormophic. Its most known work is Demain the dogs .

It gained several Prix Hugo and Prix Nebula. In 1976, it receives the Damon Knight Memorial Large Master Award of SFWA for the whole of its career. Thus Simak can be regarded as belonging to the writers of the golden age of the science fiction, as well as Bradbury or Asimov.

Biography

Born on August 3rd, 1904, Clifford Donald Simak is the son of a Czech immigrant, John Lewis Simak, farm laborer, and of Margaret Wiseman, girl of a farm owner of Milville in the Wisconsin with the the United States. It grows with his Richard brother in the farm which his/her father made build on the grounds that it had bought. In the memories, undoubtedly idealized, of the author, hordes of tamed squirrels and dogs burrows share its childhood. Milville, like Bridgeport, the close village, will be used as decorations with many its accounts.

After its studies with the University of Wisconsin, it starts to work as teacher, always in Wisconsin. It Marie with Agnes Kuchenberg on April 13rd, 1929 with which he will have two children, a boy and a girl, Scott and Shelley. They would be partly at the origin of the vocation of journalist and writer of Simak.

It is undoubtedly in these novels that the humanism of Clifford D. Simak arises best. It puts in scene simple characters, strongly enraciné in the countryside (either because they live there, or because they come from there) and the tolerance preaches. Thus, it is not rare that confronted with a meeting of the standard third, the hero simakien makes conceal his dislike or his fear to let speak his country good sense. Or then, men, animals, extraterrestrial and robots live if not harmonizes some, at least as neighbors

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