The Night of Puudly [Unknown Binding]

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: The New English Library (1968)
• ASIN: B000H0TVKI
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good, representative collection of the master's work, July 17, 2008

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This review is from: The Night of Puudly

Strictly speaking, this collection of Clifford Simak stories from the UK should be titled "The Night of THE Puudly" and not "The Night of Puudly."

That having been said, this is a nice representative collection of the author's work. In fact all five short stories play upon one or more reoccuring themes used by Simak over the years in his other works.

THE NIGHT OF THE PUUDLY deals with a man who suddenly comes to with gaps in his memory and a gun on his hip. The only thing that he really remembers is that he is hunting a beast so formable and obsessed with hate that it is fully capable of destroying all life that is not a Puudly.

CRYING JAG deals with a simple working man who is visited on his front porch one summer morning in Wisconsin by an alien and his robot.

INSTALMENT PLAN is a story of one man and his crew of loyal and versatile robots trying to negotiate a trade deal on a very, very strange planet.

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT centers around a down-on-his-luck engineer who will do anything he can to catch a spaceship back to Mars and away from the horrible "greenness" that is Earth.

PROJECT MASTODON deals with a group of explorer adventurers who not only discover time travel, but try to use it to make their fortune.

Fans of Simak will recognise in these stories elements that would be fleshed out in his larger novels and other short stories from FIRST HE DIED and ALIENS FOR NEIGHBORS to WAY STATION and MASTONDONIA.