• Simak was the third person elected as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America (after Robert A. Heinlein and Jack Williamson) and one of the inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers of America
• Simak won the Hugo Award for his novel Way Station and the International Fantasy Award for his novel City
• This is the second volume in a projected 14-book series collecting all of Simak’s short fiction
• The release of Simak's catalog in digital form in late 2015 has spurred a renaissance of interest in this classic author.

Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology

Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It’s been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it takes him right back to his twenties. The door is open, and when he climbs in, the car takes off—without a driver. Before he knows what’s happened, Hank is right back at Big Spring Pavilion, where he spent his youth drinking bootleg whiskey and chasing pretty girls. He will find the past is not quite as he remembered it, but still a lovely place to go for a drive.
 
This collection includes some of the finest short fiction Clifford Simak ever wrote, including “City,” the story that became the basis for his beloved novel of the same name. In the history of science fiction, no author has ever better understood that the Great Plains and the cosmos are closer together than we think.
 
Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this book.