A Death in the House : And Other Stories

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All stories reprinted by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak.

“Operation Stinky” © 1957 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. © 1985 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, v. 13, no. 6, April, 1957.

“Green Thumb” © 1954 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. © 1982 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, v. 8, no. 4, July, 1954.

“When It’s Hangnoose Time in Hell” © 1946 by Popular Publications, Inc. © 1974 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in .44 Western Magazine, v. 14, no. 2, April, 1946.

“The Sitters” © 1958 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. © 1986 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, v. 15, no. 6, April, 1958.

“Tools” © 1942 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. © 1970 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, v. 29, no. 5, July, 1942.

“Target Generation” © 1953 by Gernsback Publications, Inc., under the title “Spacebred Generations”; © 1981 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Science-Fiction Plus, v. 1, no. 5, Aug., 1953.

“War Is Personal” © 1944 by Nedor Publishing Co. © 1972 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Army-Navy Flying Stories, v. 4, no. 3, Winter (January), 1945.

“Nine Lives” © 1957 by American Short Stories Corp. © 1985 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Short Stories Magazine, v. 219, no. 6, December, 1957.

“A Death in the House” © 1959 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. © 1987 by Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, v. 18, no. 1, Oct., 1959.

“The Birch Clump Cylinder” © 1974 by Random House, Inc. © 2002 by the Estate of Clifford D. Simak. Originally published in original anthology Stellar 1, ed. by Judy-Lynn del Rey.

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