No Life of Their Own: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Book 5)

by Clifford D. Simak

  “Huddling Place” © 1944 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. © 1972 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, v. 33, no. 5, July, 1944.

  “To Walk a City’s Street” © 1972 by Lancer Books, Inc. © 2000 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Infinity Three.

  “Cactus Colts” © 1944 by Real Adventures Publishing Co., Inc. © 1972 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Lariat Story Magazine, v. 14, no. 2, July, 1944.

  “Message from Mars” © 1943 by Love Romances Publishing Co., Inc. © 1971 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Planet Stories, v. 2, no. 4, Fall, 1943.

  “Party Line” © 1978 by Charter Communications, Inc. Originally published in Destinies, v. 1, no. 1, Nov./Dec., 1978.

  “A Hero Must Not Die” © 1943 by Columbia Publications, Inc. © 1971 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Sky Raiders, v. 1, no. 4, June, 1943.

  “The Space Beasts” © 1940 by Fictioneers, Inc. © 1968 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Astonishing Stories, v. 1, no. 2, April, 1940.

  “Contraption” © 1953 by Ballantine Books, Inc. © 1981 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Star Science Fiction Stories, no. 1, ed. by Frederik Pohl.

  “The Whistling Well” © 1980 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Dark Forces, ed. by Kirby McCauley, Viking Press, 1980.

  Introduction copyright © 2015 by David W. Wixon

  Cover design by Jason Gabbert

  978-1-5040-2317-7

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