The Shipshape Miracle
Simak's quiet genius lies in making the impossible feel inevitable. In this title novella, a man stranded on an alien world discovers that survival might require something more radical than building shelter or gathering food. He carries diamonds worth a fortune, but what he really finds is a sentient spaceship with intentions of its own, and a desire to claim him as surely as he hopes to claim it. The castaway's bargain becomes something stranger: a meditation on what it means to possess and to belong. These nine stories showcase the philosophical warmth that made Simak a Grand Master, where the wonder is always human-scale even when the concepts are cosmic. From eternity to paradise, each tale asks what we hold onto when everything else is stripped away.
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“In the novel All Flesh Is Grass, one of Cliff’s characters, Nancy, who was a writer herself, would say of that profession: “It’s a thing you don’t talk about”
— Clifford D. Simak
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