During my recent illness and needing to take some time off each day from the horror of America's descent into Republican-fascist Trumpzism I've been returning to reading about the only science fiction author I really like, Clifford Simak. I've re-read, again, what I think is his masterpiece, Way Station, another of his masterpieces, All The Traps of Earth and a number of his other pieces. I'd known that some of his stories had been turned into radio dramas during the last years of the "golden age" and have posted one of those. Looking to see what I could find I came across this reading of one of the stories that make up what most of the Simak fans consider his best book, City. I read City but found lots of it didn't measure up to his later work. He was already a good writer as Desertion shows, and Desertion was one of only two of the piece in City that I really liked so I decided to post it. I'll look for more as I find the time to and post that.
One curious note, until I heard several people pronounce his last name online, finding they consistently pronounced it the same way, I find out that I've been pronouncing his name wrong for about fifty-five years.
Update: X-Minus One - Episode 119 - October 31, 1957 radio broadcast "Lulu"
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