Clifford Donald Simak - one of the "godchildren" of the famous John Campbell, editor of the magazine "Astounding Science Fiction", where many stars of the "golden age of science fiction" lit up. At the beginning of his literary career, Simak wrote "hard" sci-fi and adventure works. and Westerns , but then pushed the boundaries of the NF genre and created his own style which critics called soft, Humanistic and even pastoral , Comparing Simak's Prose to Ray Bradbury's Prose The world fame brought him a novel in the novels “The City” (two novels from it were included in this collection). For fifty-five years, Simak wrote about thirty novels and more than one hundred and twenty novels and short stories. Awarded Hugo, Nebula, Locus and others. He was awarded the Grandmaster of the Nebula Award .. This book is the second volume of the complete collection of works of the Master in the small genre .. Some of the works included in the collection have been translated for the first time, and some are published in a new translation.