Clifford Simak - I Am Crying All Inside - And Other Stories

DAVID W. WIXON was a close friend of Clifford D. Simak’s. As Simak’s health declined, Wixon, already familiar with science fiction publishing, began more and more to handle such things as his friend’s business correspondence and contract matters. Named literary executor of the estate after Simak’s death, Wixon began a long-term project to secure the rights to all of Simak’s stories and find a way to make them available to readers who, given the fifty-five-year span of Simak’s writing career, might never have gotten the chance to enjoy all of his short fiction. Along the way, Wixon also read the author’s surviving journals and rejected manuscripts, which made him uniquely able to provide Simak’s readers with interesting and thought-provoking commentary that sheds new light on the work and thought of a great writer.

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These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

“Installment Plan” © 1958 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. © 1986 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine, v. 17, no. 3, Feb., 1959. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air” © 2015 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak. Published by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“Small Deer” © 1965 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. © 1993 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine, v. 24, no. 1, Oct., 1965. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“Ogre” © 1943 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. © 1971 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, v. 32, no. 5, January, 1944. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“Gleaners” © 1959 by Digest Productions Corp. © 1987 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in If, v. 10, no. 1, March, 1960. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“Madness from Mars” © 1939 by Better Publications, Inc. © 1967 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, v. 13, no. 2, April, 1939. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“Gunsmoke Interlude” © 1952 by Popular Publications,Inc. © 1980 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in 10-Story Western Magazine, v. 46, no. 3, October, 1952. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“I Am Crying All Inside” © 1969 by Universal Publishing & Distributing Corp. © 1997 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, v. 28, no. 6, Aug., 1969. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“The Call from Beyond” © 1950 by Fictioneers, Inc. © 1978 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Super Science Stories, v. 6, no. 4, May, 1950. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“All the Traps of Earth” © 1960 by Mercury Press, Inc. © 1988 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, v. 18, no. 3, March, 1960. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

Copyright © 2015 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak

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