I Am Crying All Inside: And Other Stories

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From the Nebula Awardwinning author of Way Station: Ten storiesincluding one never before publishedof mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be.

People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same.

Along with the other stories in this collection, I Am Crying All Inside is a compact marvela picture of an impossible reality that is not so different from our own.

Also included in this volume is the newly published I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air, originally written for Harlan EllisonsThe Last Dangerous Visions.

Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this book.

Reviews

To read science fiction is to read Simak. A reader who does not like Simak stories does not like science fiction at all. Robert A. Heinlein

Like Olaf Stapledon and SFs later mystics, Simak could dream on a grand scale.... Thoreau or Wordsworth would feel at home in his isolated houses rooted in natural landscapes. Locus

Simak is the most underrated great science fiction writer alive, and has never written a bad book. Theodore Sturgeon

I read [Simaks] stories with particular attention, and I couldnt help but notice the simplicity and directness of the writingthe utter clarity of it. I made up my mind to imitate it, and I labored over the years to make my writing simpler, clearer, more uncluttered, to present my scenes on a bare stage. Isaac Asimov

Without Simak, science fiction would have been without its most humane element, its most humane spokesman for the wisdom of the ordinary person and the value of life lived close to the land. James Gunn

Author Bio

During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of theMinneapolis Star-Tribune,writing fiction in his spare time.

Simak was best known for the bookCity,a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novelWay Station.In 1953Citywas awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Associations Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.