tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331135384154117296.post2005690453827745398..comments2024-01-30T20:01:01.316+00:00Comments on Science Fiction & Fantasy: Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D SimakAnthony G Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00798830903236765181noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331135384154117296.post-24770426879897360072009-11-22T01:33:44.160+00:002009-11-22T01:33:44.160+00:00Thanks for that, JimThanks for that, JimAnthony G Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798830903236765181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6331135384154117296.post-72312866527715854552009-11-21T16:43:47.609+00:002009-11-21T16:43:47.609+00:00Cosmic Engineers wasn't a short story from 193...Cosmic Engineers wasn't a short story from 1939, but a 3-part serial. I'd love to know how much Simak changed the story for the 1950 book publication. For 1939 the ideas were amazing, for 1950, a good deal less amazing.<br /><br />City is one of my all time favorite SF books too, and it was a fixup novel containing several previously published short stories, but it did hold up well as a single story, and still does. I find it about equal to Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles in terms of gentle humanistic science fiction.<br /><br />The Cosmic Engineers is very dated and clunky, so I think it's essentially the same as the 1939 serial. I'd like to think it's exactly the same, because it would be a major classic from 1939, but dated by 1950 in terms of story telling style.Jim Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953679196185650753noreply@blogger.com