My favorite is Goblin Reservation. I’m still looking for a hardcover I can afford.
I just finished Shakespeare’s Planet. I couldn’t help but notice that several themes/motifs happen in both: Shakespeare for one, and an imprisoned dragon, and multiple races (i.e. aliens) mostly getting along. Are these common in his work?
What are your opinions of Mr. Simak, and what other of his works would you recommend?
I like him a lot and have read a fair stack of his novels over the years, although I don’t own many of his books anymore…
Favourites include Way Station, The Visitors and Catface (aka Mastodonia)
He wrote some excellent short stories as well - The Marathon Photograph and Grotto of the Dancing Deer are favourites…
I’m vaguely looking out for Project Pope to re-read; I was a bit disappointed in it when it came out and want to try it again!
A fan - Way Station, Goblin Reservation and The Werewolf Principle in particular are fun. I like his quiet, often lightly humorous writing voice.
However his attempt at epic fantasy,The Fellowship of Talisman, was pretty crappy IMHO.
I read Way Station back in the 70’s. The story stuck with me, although I never read any of his other books that I can recall. I should look at him again.
I have read Werewolf Principle, Goblin Reservation, Cemetary World and my personal favorite, Mastodonia, literally DOZENS of times since I was a teenager. There are a lot of his books I can’t get into, but those will always rate among my favorite SF novels.
He was a favored author of mine; I still have a bunch of his books.
I’ve only read City. But then, I also re-read it every year or two.
I have Way Station on my Amazon Wish List for the future.
I haven’t read a lot of his work (Way Station and a few of his stories) but I liked his style. His narrative voice reminded me a lot of nineteenth century American novels and it stood out in comparison to his pulp inspired contemporaries.
I plan on at least reading City and I’ll keep an eye out for Shakespeare’s Planet.
Another fan here. I fell in love with the sound of Way Station when a local Public Radio featured it on a “Reading Aloud” program in the late 70s. Over the years I read most of his works and realized that unless you’re interested in watching him explore a theme and play with it (I was), you could probably get all there was to be gotten if you read, say, every fifth book. (Not counting Way Station and City which seem to be on a different level.)
Still, some of his short stories are wonderful … The Big Front Yard, The Sitters, the Golden Bugs and my two all-time favorites: Desertion and Leg. Forst. Read at the opportune time they were perspective-shifters. I don’t know if today’s generation finds them so, but they’re still good reads.