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There have been moments when I also wasn’t able to attach as much importance to football as it seemed to me I should.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
Perhaps all that had happened had been no more than the working out of human destiny. If the human race could not attain directly the paranormal power he held, this instinct of the mind, then they would gain it indirectly through the agency of one of their creations.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
Accident, he wondered, or a way of hiding? Trapped or planned? He had no way of knowing and further speculation was ridiculous, based as it necessarily must be upon earlier assumptions that were entirely without support.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
First there was space—endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
He sat and watched them come and he thought of going in to get a rifle, but he didn’t stir from his seat upon the steps. The rifle would do no good, he told himself. It would be a senseless thing to get it; more than that, a senseless attitude. The least that man could do, he thought, was to meet these creatures of another world with clean and empty hands.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)