[Next production] Clifford D. Simak - Short Fiction

[Robin Whittleton]

I remember reading a bunch of Cliff Simak when I was a kid, and there’s enough on Gutenberg to make a reasonable compilation. Leaving aside Empire which is a 50k word novel (might be good for the first production list?) we have a total of 10 shorts to play with. They are:

• Hellhounds of the Cosmos, June 1932, Astounding Stories
• The Street That Wasn’t There, July 1941, Comet
• Message from Mars, Fall 1943, Planet Stories
• Mr. Meek—Musketeer, Summer 1944, Planet Stories
• Mr. Meek Plays Polo, Fall 1944, Planet Stories
• The Call from Beyond, May 1950, Super Science Stories
• Second Childhood, February 1951, Galaxy Science Fiction
• Project Mastodon, March 1955, Galaxy Science Fiction
• The World That Couldn’t Be, January 1958, Galaxy Science Fiction
• The Shipshape Miracle, January 1963, Worlds of If

“The Street That Wasn't There” was co-written with Carl Jacobi. It all looks fairly simple to put together, will pick a suitable abstract painting after the fact, probably from our nicely growing selection on the artworks DB.

Repo is at https://github.com/robinwhittleton/clifford-d-simak_short-fiction.

-Robin

[Alex Cabal]

OK! David will manage this with Weijia reviewing.

On 9/1/25 2:58 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> I remember reading a bunch of Cliff Simak when I was a kid, and there’s
> enough on Gutenberg to make a reasonable compilation. Leaving aside

> Empire <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28215> which is a 50k word

> novel (might be good for the first production list?) we have a total of
> 10 shorts to play with. They are:
>

> * Hellhounds of the Cosmos <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27013>,
> June 1932, Astounding Stories <https://archive.org/details/
> astounding-v-010-n-03-1932-06>
> * The Street That Wasn’t There <https://www.gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/22218>, July 1941, Comet <https://archive.org/details/
> Comet_v01n05_1941-07>
> * Message from Mars <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62357>, Fall
> 1943, Planet Stories <https://archive.org/details/
> Planet_Stories_v02n04_1943-Fall>
> * Mr. Meek—Musketeer <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63046>, Summer
> 1944, Planet Stories <https://archive.org/details/
> Planet_Stories_v02n07_1944-Summer>
> * Mr. Meek Plays Polo <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63130>, Fall
> 1944, Planet Stories <https://archive.org/details/
> Planet_Stories_v02n08_1944-Fall>
> * The Call from Beyond <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69308>, May
> 1950, Super Science Stories <https://archive.org/details/
> Super_Science_Stories_v06n04_1950-05_oak-wmfs>
> * Second Childhood <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51037>, February
> 1951, Galaxy Science Fiction <https://archive.org/details/
> Galaxy_v01n05_1951-02>
> * Project Mastodon <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22216>, March
> 1955, Galaxy Science Fiction <https://archive.org/details/
> Galaxy_v09n06_1955-03>
> * The World That Couldn’t Be <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32026>,
> January 1958, Galaxy Science Fiction <https://archive.org/details/
> Galaxy_v15n03_1958-01>
> * The Shipshape Miracle <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61333>,
> January 1963, Worlds of If <https://archive.org/details/1963-01_IF>

>
>
> “The Street That Wasn't There” was co-written with Carl Jacobi. It all
> looks fairly simple to put together, will pick a suitable abstract
> painting after the fact, probably from our nicely growing selection on

> the artworks DB <https://standardebooks.org/artworks?
> status=all&query=abstract&sort=created-newest&per-page=20>.
>
> Repo is at https://github.com/robinwhittleton/clifford-d-simak_short-
> fiction <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/clifford-d-simak_short-fiction>.
>
> -Robin
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[Weijia Cheng]

Ok, noted.

[Robin Whittleton]

Claiming this Geogia O’Keefe that Emma found for this production. I’ve assigned it in the artwork DB.

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[David]

Thanks, Robin - looks terrific! (Nice find, Emma :)

On Monday, 8 September 2025 at 07:38:55 UTC+1 robin wrote:

Claiming this Geogia O’Keefe that Emma found for this production. I’ve assigned it in the artwork DB.

. . .

[Robin Whittleton]

OK, I think we’re ready for a review on https://github.com/robinwhittleton/clifford-d-simak_short-fiction. A few notes:

• There’s a couple of unsemantic <i>s that I think are OK as is, but feel free to query them
• modernize spelling makes a bunch of changes still, but I think the current ones are incorrect
• There are a couple of editorial changes to fix obvious spelling mistakes in the scans
• Broadly the Gutenberg transcripts were in good shape, with the biggest problem being missing section breaks in “Project Mastodon” that I reinstated (and reported back)

-Robin

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[Weijia Cheng]

Looks good. I filed a review with only one notable issue involving the organization of the CSS.

[Weijia Cheng]

Ok Alex, this is ready for you.

[Alex Cabal]

Looks very good, thanks! I've released it.

On 9/10/25 7:30 PM, 'Weijia Cheng' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
> Ok Alex, this is ready for you.
>
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 7:07:51 AM UTC-4 Weijia Cheng wrote:
>
> Looks good. I filed a review with only one notable issue involving
> the organization of the CSS.
>
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 2:52:17 AM UTC-4 robin wrote:
>
> OK, I think we’re ready for a review on https://github.com/

> robinwhittleton/clifford-d-simak_short-fiction <https://
> github.com/robinwhittleton/clifford-d-simak_short-fiction>. A
> few notes:
>
> * There’s a couple of unsemantic <i>s that I think are OK as

> is, but feel free to query them

> * modernize spelling makes a bunch of changes still, but I

> think the current ones are incorrect

> * There are a couple of editorial changes to fix obvious

> spelling mistakes in the scans

> * Broadly the Gutenberg transcripts were in good shape, with

> the biggest problem being missing section breaks in “Project
> Mastodon” that I reinstated (and reported back)
>
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 8 Sep 2025, at 09:12, David <djre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Robin - looks terrific! (Nice find, Emma :)
>>
>> On Monday, 8 September 2025 at 07:38:55 UTC+1 robin wrote:
>>

>> Claiming this Geogia O’Keefe <https://standardebooks.org/
>> artworks/georgia-okeeffe/lake-george-reflection> that Emma

>> found for this production. I’ve assigned it in the artwork DB.
>>
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