CLIFFORD D. SIMAK
Winner of the
HUGO and INTERNATIONAL FANTASY AWARDS
and the
GRAND MASTER NEBULA

Nine Stouries Of
Robots On The Runs,
Mechanical Messiahs,
Galactic Baby-Sitters,
Freudian Aliens,
Calico Cosmic Critters,
And Immortality
On The Installment Plan

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He is an ancient robot on the lam - a messiah hunted by the men he must save.

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Henderson James is a duplicate man dreaming of immorality - but his creators foresaw his dream and built in a nightmare.

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A planet where creatures in every hue of the rainbow die without giving it a second thought.

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Their gift to mankind is a gentle ear and all they ask is to banish sorrow forever.

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Every child is perfect - studious, well-mannered, and possessed of an alien calm.

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In ALL THE TRAPS OF EARTH, Clifford D. Simak presents a fantastic universe where man is a seasoned wanderer of space, where the creatures of the galaxy view Earth as a second home, and where every traveler of the cosmos must beware not only of the traps of an unknown earth, but also the deadly snares of the universal dream - ambition.

THE PLANET BECKONED
THEM FROM SPACE -
and closed round them like a Venus Fly Trap!

Assailed by strange perils and even stranger temptations, the little group stumbled towards its destiny - Mike Ross, the pilot, Sara Foster, the big game hunter, blind George Smith, and the odious Friar Tuck.

Before them was a legend made flesh, around them were creatures of myth and mystery, close behind them stalked Nemesis.  The doll, the little wooden painted doll, was to be their salvation.  Or their damnation, for each might choose, and find, his own Nirvana.

THROUGH LANDS
FORLORN

This was medieval England in the 1970s, again beset by the ancient Evil that had kept the Dark Ages from ever lightening.  Half the country was in the grip of the fell Harriers, and it was through these Harried Lands that Duncan of Standish would have to make his way to Oxenford.  His mission was to authenticate a long-lost testament which offered the only hope against the terror.

Beset by Harriers, Duncan is saved by Diane, great-granddaughter of a renegade wizard, and joined by the strangest company ever assembled: a timid hermit, a ghost who knows nothing of ghosthood, a banshee, a grumpy goblin, a witch who could never quite make herself evil enough, and a demon who is AWOL from Hell.

Duncan believes himself protected by the talisman of a wizard's bauble.  But when the Evil forces detect the company and mount a final assault against them, Duncan sees his only hope crumble in failure.

He is left with only his courage and his mission...

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION

Four Against Horror

Secretly and in stealth, four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of Evil - the so-called Empty Lands, filled with every evil creature from the darkest of mankind's myths.

Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lost and almost forgotten fiancée.  The Knurly Man, who was somewhat other than quite human, went to find the death that would be kinder than the future he foresaw.  The abbot sought to recapture a fabulous prism in which the soul of a saint had been trapped.  And the girl Yolanda was seeking the answer to a mystery and a question she did not know.

But already their coming and their purpose was known.  The denizens os the Empty Lands were girding for war.

And behind all the Evil lay the most ancient of dark Powers, waiting patiently for the humans whose souls should set it free.

First Paperback Publication

CLIFFORD D. SIMAK
Winner of the
HUGO and INTERNATIONAL FANTASY AWARDS
and the
GRAND MASTER NEBULA

Immortality - The
Ultimate Reward

To come back to life - and never die again - that's what Forever Center promises the human race.  And that's why, in the year 2148, people spend their whole lives in poverty, giving all their money to Forever Center to ensure their happiness and comfort in the next eternal life.

Daniel Frost is a key man at Forever Center.  When he accidentally stumbles onto some classified documents, Dan incurs the wrath of an unseen enemy who has him framed and denounced as a social outcast.  With the notorious mark of ostracization on his forehead, he is condemned to the desperate life of a hunted animal.  But a few people will risk their lives to help him: Ann Harrison, the beautiful renegade lawyer who is convinced of his innocence, and Mona Campbell, the brilliant mathematician who has discovered some shattering information about Forever Center... and the essence of life itself.