Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empire | 1932 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 2 | Cosmic Engineers | 1950 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 3 | Time and Again / First He Died | 1950 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 4 | Ring Around the Sun | 1952 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 5 | Time is the Simplest Thing / The Fisherman | 1961 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 6 | Trouble with Tycho | 1961 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 7 | They Walked Like Men | 1962 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 8 | Way Station / Here Gather the Stars | 1963 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 9 | All Flesh Is Grass | 1965 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 10 | The Werewolf Principle | 1967 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 11 | Why Call Them Back From Heaven? | 1967 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 12 | So Bright the Vision | 1968 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 13 | The Goblin Reservation | 1968 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 14 | Out of Their Minds | 1970 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 15 | Prehistoric Man | 1971 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 16 | Destiny Doll | 1972 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 17 | A Choice of Gods | 1972 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 18 | Cemetery World | 1972 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 19 | Waystation | 1973 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 20 | Our Children’s Children | 1974 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 21 | Enchanted Pilgrimage | 1975 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 22 | Shakespeare’s Planet | 1976 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 23 | A Heritage of Stars | 1977 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 24 | The Fellowship of the Talisman | 1978 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 25 | Mastodonia / Catface | 1978 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 26 | The Visitors | 1980 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 27 | Project Pope | 1981 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 28 | Where the Evil Dwells | 1982 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 29 | Special Deliverance | 1982 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 30 | Highway of Eternity | 1986 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
| 31 | Time Quarry | 2014 | Clifford D. Simak | Buy |
Clifford D. Simak’s 31 standalone novels span over fifty years of science fiction, from Empire (1932) to Highway of Eternity (1986). His work consistently returned to themes of humanity’s place in the cosmos, the dignity of rural life, and the possibility of contact with alien intelligence.
Highlights include Way Station (1963), about a lonely Civil War veteran running an alien transit point; The Goblin Reservation (1968), mixing fantasy and sci-fi on a future university campus; and A Choice of Gods (1972), imagining a depopulated Earth where the remaining humans evolve in different directions.