
A cycle of linked tales in which people gradually abandon their cities, and in the end the Earth itself. The story is retold across the ages by the intelligent Dogs who inherit the world, and by the faithful robot Jenkins. A quiet, wistful and deeply humane book about the home we leave behind.

Everlasting goods appear in the shops - lightbulbs that never burn out, razors that never dull - and quietly wreck the old economy. Jay Vickers sets out to learn who is behind it and stumbles onto a whole ring of parallel Earths circling the sun. A novel about the next step in human evolution and the fear it stirs up.

The stars are too far for ships, so people send their minds instead of their bodies. Shepherd Blaine comes home from a distant world with an alien mind riding inside his own - and becomes an outcast the authorities want to hunt down. A road novel about telepathy, intolerance and a flight across the country.

Someone is quietly buying up the Earth - houses, blocks, whole cities - paying in real money and turning people out of their homes. Reporter Parker Graves realises the buyers are aliens you cannot tell from human beings. A wry novel about a takeover carried out entirely by the rules of the market.

Enoch Wallace fought in the Civil War, yet still looks thirty: for over a century he has kept a secret galactic way station inside his remote Wisconsin farmhouse. As he serves as Earth's unofficial ambassador to the stars, the wider world keeps closing in on him. One of Simak's warmest and wisest books, and a Hugo Award winner.

One morning the small town of Millville finds itself sealed off by an invisible wall that cuts it from the rest of the world. Beyond the barrier lies another Earth, ruled by sentient purple flowers that are ready to talk. A first-contact novel where the alien mind grows straight out of the ground.

A man brought back from the stars turns out to carry two alien minds inside him - a wolf-like hunter and a shape-shifter who can take any form. Andrew Blake cannot remember who he is and has to learn to live with himself. A novel about the edges of the human and what we are really made of.

A far-future Earth where matter travels down wires and people share the world with goblins, trolls, a ghost, a Neanderthal and a Shakespeare summoned out of the past. Professor Peter Maxwell comes back from a trip to learn that he has already been buried. A playful, high-spirited book, rare in Simak's work.

One night nearly all of humankind simply vanishes from the Earth. The few who remain are granted long life and live simply, among forests, robots and Native Americans, while far away a machine intelligence tries on the role of a god. A late, meditative novel about faith, solitude and the paths a civilisation might take.

After sleeping for thousands of years in transit, Carter Horton wakes beside an alien star: his crew is dead, his ship refuses to take him home, and the planet holds a predatory monster and the recorded personality of a man nicknamed Shakespeare. A novel about loneliness among the stars and an odd friendship at the edge of the universe.