And no, it didn't sound silly at all.The Goblin Reservation — now there's a blast from the past! Very few people remember Clifford D Simak these days. I first stumbled across him when I found a second-hand copy of "Ring around the Sun" in the early to mid-1960's, and I still go back to read his stuff now. "Time is the Simplest Thing" is one of my favourites among his novels, and I love the gorgeous gentle humour of the short story "Neighbour" (the last story in the collection "Aliens for Neighbours").
I guess he's most famous for his series of connected short stories, published as "City". There's real poignancy about some of the stories in there, and he wrote a final story in the series, titled "Epilog", for publication in the book "Astounding" (ed. Harry Harrison), which was the John W. Campbell memorial anthology.
