Clifford Donald Simak was born on August 3, 1904, in Millville, Wisconsin, in a rural community that influenced the setting of many of his stories. He was a journalist but he’s especially famous as a science fiction writer. In years in which aliens were generally villains, Simak saw them in a more positive way. Among his many famous novels, there are “City” and “Way Station”. Simak died on April 25, 1988.