Clifford D. Simak Reading Order

37 books (1958–2021)

Start with Astounding Science Fiction, October 1958, the first of 37 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Astounding Science Fiction, October 1958 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	Novelets of Science Fiction 1963Buy 🇺🇸
4	Alien Worlds 1964Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Microcosmic God 1965Buy 🇺🇸
6	Tomorrow 1| Science Fiction by the Masters 1971Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nebula Award 6 1972Buy 🇺🇸
8	Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives 1973Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Devil's Generation 1973Buy 🇺🇸
11	The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding 1973Buy 🇺🇸
12	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974Buy 🇺🇸
13	Decade: The 1940's 1975Buy 🇺🇸
14	Threads Of Time 1976Buy 🇺🇸
15	Aliens: 3 Novellas 1977Buy 🇺🇸
16	Stellar #3 1977Buy 🇺🇸
17	Perilous Planets 1978Buy 🇺🇸
18	Rod Serling's Other Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
19	Analog Science Fiction, November 1979 1979Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Best of Astounding 1979Buy 🇺🇸
21	Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor 1982Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸
23	The SFWA Grand Masters 1 1999Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸
26	More Fantastic Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸
27	Startling Stories #3 2010Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
29	Science Fiction Gems, Vol. One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
30	Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Time Travel Megapack 2013Buy 🇺🇸
32	Science Fiction Gems, Volume Twelve 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	Space Pioneers 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	Thrilling Wonder Stories - December 1938 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction 2020Buy 🇺🇸
37	Comet: Stories of Super Time and Space 2021Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1952–2024)

Start with City, the first of 22 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	City 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Worlds of Clifford Simak 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	Strangers in the Universe 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Night of the Puudly 1960Buy 🇺🇸
5	All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1962Buy 🇺🇸
6	Other Worlds of Clifford Simak 1962Buy 🇺🇸
7	Aliens for Neighbours 1963Buy 🇺🇸
8	All the Traps of Earth 1963Buy 🇺🇸
9	Worlds Without End 1964Buy 🇺🇸
10	Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak 1965Buy 🇺🇸
11	Over the River and Through the Woods 1965Buy 🇺🇸
12	Skirmish 1977Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories 1986Buy 🇺🇸
14	Brother and Other Stories 1988Buy 🇺🇸
15	Off-Planet 1988Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Autumn Land and Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
17	Immigrant and Other Stories 1991Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Creator and Other Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Civilisation Game and Other Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hellhounds of the Cosmos and Other Tales from the Fourth Dimension 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	Madness From Mars and Other Short Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories 2024Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1971–1971)

#	Title
1	The March of Science 1971Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1932–2016)

Start with Hellhounds of the Cosmos, the first of 9 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Hellhounds of the Cosmos 1932Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rule 18 1938Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Street That Wasn't There 1941Buy 🇺🇸
4	Mr. Meek Plays Polo 1944Buy 🇺🇸
5	Project Mastodon 1955Buy 🇺🇸
6	The World That Couldn't Be 1958Buy 🇺🇸
7	Eternity Lost 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Spacebred Generations 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Second Childhood 2016Buy 🇺🇸

31 books (1932–2014)

Start with Empire, the first of 31 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Empire 1932Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cosmic Engineers 1950Buy 🇺🇸
3	Time and Again / First He Died 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ring Around the Sun 1952Buy 🇺🇸
5	Time is the Simplest Thing / The Fisherman 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	Trouble with Tycho 1961Buy 🇺🇸
7	They Walked Like Men 1962Buy 🇺🇸
8	Way Station / Here Gather the Stars 1963Buy 🇺🇸
9	All Flesh Is Grass 1965Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Werewolf Principle 1967Buy 🇺🇸
11	Why Call Them Back From Heaven? 1967Buy 🇺🇸
12	So Bright the Vision 1968Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Goblin Reservation 1968Buy 🇺🇸
14	Out of Their Minds 1970Buy 🇺🇸
15	Prehistoric Man 1971Buy 🇺🇸
16	A Choice of Gods 1972Buy 🇺🇸
17	Cemetery World 1972Buy 🇺🇸
18	Destiny Doll 1972Buy 🇺🇸
19	Waystation 1973Buy 🇺🇸
20	Our Children's Children 1974Buy 🇺🇸
21	Enchanted Pilgrimage 1975Buy 🇺🇸
22	Shakespeare's Planet 1976Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Heritage of Stars 1977Buy 🇺🇸
24	Mastodonia / Catface 1978Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Fellowship of the Talisman 1978Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Visitors 1980Buy 🇺🇸
27	Project Pope 1981Buy 🇺🇸
28	Special Deliverance 1982Buy 🇺🇸
29	Where the Evil Dwells 1982Buy 🇺🇸
30	Highway of Eternity 1986Buy 🇺🇸
31	Time Quarry 2014Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1974–1981)

Start with Stellar #1(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey), the first of 8 books in the Stellar series.

#	Title
1	Stellar #1(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stellar #2(With: Isaac Asimov,Larry Niven,Howard Waldrop,Jack C. Haldeman II,Steven Utley,Hal Clement,James White,Richard S. Simak,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Patrick G. Conner) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stellar Short Novels(By: Gordon R. Dickson,Andrew J. Offutt,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Shawn Oueinsteen) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stellar #3(With: Jack L. Chalker,Gene DeWeese,Jeffrey M. Wallman,Charles W. Runyon,Mildred Downey Broxon,Henry Melton,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Arsen Darney,B. Lee Cooper,Larry S. Haverkos,Steve Utley,Bill Starr) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Stellar #4(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stellar #5(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stellar #6(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Stellar #7(By: Terry Carr,Leanne Frahm,Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1981Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2015–2017)

Start with I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories, the first of 12 books in the The Complete Short Fiction Of Clifford D. Simak series.

#	Title
1	I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Big Front Yard and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Death in the House and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Good Night, Mr. James and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	New Folks' Home and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	No Life of Their Own and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dusty Zebra and Other Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Shipshape Miracle and Other Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2018)

Start with The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI(By: Robert Sheckley) and read in order.

19 books (2013–2013)

Start with Anthology of Sci-Fi V1, the first of 19 books in the The Pulp Writers series.

#	Title
1	Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 2013Buy 🇺🇸