Cemetery World and Destiny Doll, Clifford D. Simak
Cemetery World and Destiny Doll, Clifford D. Simak
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Cemetery World and Destiny Doll

Author: Clifford D. Simak

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Unabridged: 13 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/19/2024


Synopsis

Brave explorers encounter a dangerous new world and a terrifying future Earth in these two classic novels by the pioneering SFWA Grand Master.

Cemetery World

After a disastrous planet-wide war, Earth is nothing more than an elite graveyard—but Fletcher Carson is venturing back in search of a vital bounty. Fletcher, a former artist, is joined by a sentient machine, an ancient, powerful robot, and a treasure-seeking beauty. They soon discover that Earth harbors more than the carefully groomed tombstones. In the wild land beyond the cemetery there are dangerous machines, mutant creatures, and even humans who never left their home planet.

Destiny Doll

When a team of explorers is beckoned to a strange planet, it closes around them like a Venus flytrap. Assailed by strange perils and even stranger temptations, the small group struggles to survive as, surrounded by creatures of myth and mystery, they are stalked by a deadly nemesis. Even more peculiar is the little wooden painted doll that offers them salvation . . . or damnation.

About Clifford D. Simak

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 the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time.

Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was 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 Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andres on April 02, 2023

Classic Simak Which means formulaic sci-fi, but entertaining, nonetheless. Most of Simak's stories are Quest-based, usually including at least one man, one woman, one alien, and one robot. All transported to an unfamiliar planet trying to solve some mystery, and upon completion, boy gets girl. But da......more

Goodreads review by David on August 18, 2023

Simak is the best Two more great tales from a master of science infiction. Destiny Doll is the better of the two in my opinion, with an ending you can't predict.......more