{"product_id":"i-am-crying-all-inside-and-other-stories-9781504012676","title":"I Am Crying All Inside: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nebula Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWay Station\u003c\/i\u003e: Ten stories--including one never before published--of mystery and imagination in a world that cannot be. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e People work; folk play. That is how it has been in this country for as long as Sam can remember. He is happy, and he understands that this is the way it should be. People are bigger than folk. They are stronger. They do not need food or water. They do not need the warmth of a fire. All they need are jobs to do and a blacksmith to fix them when they break. The people work so the folk can drink their moonshine, fish a little, and throw horseshoes. But once Sam starts to wonder why the world is like this, his life will never be the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Along with the other stories in this collection, \"I Am Crying All Inside\" is a compact marvel--a picture of an impossible reality that is not so different from our own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Also included in this volume is the newly published \"I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up in the Air,\" originally written for Harlan Ellison's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Dangerous Visions.\u003c\/i\u003e(TM) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEach story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring his fifty-five-year career, CLIFFORD D. SIMAK produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003e writing fiction in his spare time. \u003cbr\u003e Simak was best known for the book \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel \u003ci\u003eWay Station. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 1953 \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.\u003cbr\u003eDAVID W. WIXON was a close friend of Clifford D. Simak's. As Simak's health declined, Wixon, already familiar with science fiction publishing, began more and more to handle such things as his friend's business correspondence and contract matters. Named literary executor of the estate after Simak's death, Wixon began a long-term project to secure the rights to all of Simak's stories and find a way to make them available to readers who, given the fifty-five-year span of Simak's writing career, might never have gotten the chance to enjoy all of his short fiction. Along the way, Wixon also read the author's surviving journals and rejected manuscripts, which made him uniquely able to provide Simak's readers with interesting and thought-provoking commentary that sheds new light on the work and thought of a great writer.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650003177746,"sku":"9781504012676","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a68f7506-1b95-4d4e-a5c3-5edd33e3d539.jpg?v=1733280116","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-am-crying-all-inside-and-other-stories-9781504012676","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}