The good earth author6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() At least half a dozen different publishers would come out with their own editions over the next decade and a half the one that I was fortunate enough to acquire somewhere, somewhen is the $2.25 paperback from Avon, released in 1979 with a wonderfully faithful cover by Jan Esteves. "All the Traps of Earth" gathers together nine of Simak's stories from the 10-year period 1951 - 1960-one short story, six novelettes, and two novellas-most of them drawn from the sci-fi digest magazine "Galaxy." The collection was initially released as a $3.95 Doubleday hardcover in 1962, with cover art by one Lawrence Ratzkin. And as it turns out, the collection is an absolutely splendid one, with nary a clinker in the bunch. Coming to my rescue in this regard was the Wisconsin-born writer's "All the Traps of Earth," which had been sitting here at home on a shelf, unread, for ages now. ![]() Oh, I had read any number of the author's novels during those four decades, but since reading his 1968 collection "So Bright the Vision" back in 1981, none of his work of a shorter length. Looking back, it strikes me with some surprise that, up until very recently, I had not read any of sci-fi Grand Master Clifford D. ![]()
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