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Terms

• Work – a prose text (story or novel)
• Story - a shorter work, up to ca. 100 printed sides
• Novel - a longer work, from up to 100 printed sides


• Edition - an independent bibliographic entity (book [hardcover, soft cover, pocket book], booklet, magazine, newspaper) which are published and offered for sale.
• an edition can include one or several works of one or several authors


• Single Issue - is an edition, which includes only one work
• usually novels appear as single issues
• a story, that is published as a single issue is also called Chapter book
• Author Book – an edition which includes only works written by one author, in this case Clifford D. Simak (for example: Single Issue or Collection)


• Collection - a collection of several stories by one author, in this case Clifford D. Simak
• Anthology - a collection of several stories by several authors
• Magazine - magazines and periodicals
  Magazines are distinguished from anthologies through
• periodical publishing
• edited parts (news, letters to the editor, popular scientific articles etc.)
• mostly bigger format and flexible cover page
• Omnibus - a collection of several novels or one novel and several stories in one edition.
  Here must be distinguished between
• Omnibus-Collection - an omnibus with works by only one author
• Omnibus-Anthology - an omnibus with works of several authors


• Release - is an attribution of one work to an edition

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The Window

Left frame "Works" | Middle Frame "Releases" | Right frame "Details"

The bibliography window consists of two main sections.

• The section on the top is for control. Here are six list fields in which you have the options for preferences and which affect the content of the section below.
• The section below displays the bibliographic contents. It consists of 3 sections, called frames.

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Left frame "Works"

Here the works of Clifford D. Simak are listed. They appear only in their English original titles. Works, which are published under different titles are mentioned with its most renowned title with the addition of "aka".

Beside single works you can choose as well author books (collections and omnibus-collections) means such editions, which include only works by Clifford D. Simak.

A click on an entry displays in the middle frame releases of the corresponding works by Clifford D. Simak.

• Is there only one release, the details of this edition will be displayed automatically in the right frame.

• If there are several releases, than a hint appears in the right frame and you are asked to choose between them.

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Middle Frame "Releases"

• Here are the releases of a particular work displayed (which you have selected left).
• The info box on the particular releases include
  • some important informations about the particular edition
  • a thumbnail of the cover page (at most 100px width) and
  • internal numbering from the Database (wk = work | rel = release | ed = edition)

• The hints “as” and “in” show you if it is a single issue or not.
• The entry "as" alone means it is a single issue or the main entry of a collection, omnibus-collection or anthology edited by Clifford D. Simak.
• An “as” followed by an “in” means this novel or story is included in an edition (collection, anthology, omnibus or magazine) together with other works.

A click on the link "Details" or on the thumbnail displays in the right frame the details of the particular edition.

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Right frame "Details"

Here appear the details of the particular editions in the following way

• First a short text and a bigger image of the cover page (height at most 400px)
• Beneath an info box with details about the edition: author (mostly Clifford D. Simak), editor, title, type, country, publishing house, date of release, serial number, ISBN, price, number of pages, kind of bookbinding, name of the designer of the cover image)

• Beneath of the data ["This Edition contains ..."] there it is listed which works by Clifford D. Simak are included in the accordant edition (title, original title, year of release, language, translator, in some cases pages [from-to])
• The asterisk * after a page number indicates that the exact page number at the end of the work is unknown. The number can vary by ±1 page.
• You will overlook very soon if the edition includes beside the selected work as well other works by Clifford D. Simak.

• The titles of all works are as well links. If you click on one of these links you can see in the middle frame all Releases of this particular work (according to the selected language and country).

Attention: The country appears in all details always on the top, because one edition is always released at a particular place in a particular country.
The language and the translators appear only at the bottom of the releases, because one edition can be multilingual and one edition with several works could be translated by several translators

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Operation

"Type" and "Sort" | "Language" and "Country" | "Filter" and "Order"

If you change a selection in the list fields it will immediately affect the content of the informations at the bottom. For this function, Javascript must be activated!

"Type" and "Sort"

The two list fields "Type" and "Sort" affect primary the left frame"Works".

"Type"

Here you can make preferences which works or author books shall be displayed in the left frame for the selection:

• Novels
• Stories
  • all stories (SF and Fantasy as well as non-SF stories)
• SF & F Stories
  • only stories belong to the genre Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Non-SF Stories
  • only stories that do not belong to the genre Science Fiction and Fantasy (Simak wrote in the 1940s also air war and western stories)
• Novels & Stories
  • the fact that every written belletristic work by Clifford D. Simak is either a novel oder a story you will find with this preference already all fiction and herewith all releases and all editions!
• Collections
  • without omnibuses
• Novels & Collections
  • This preference makes less sense if you look for all author books (single issues and collections) by Clifford Simak because there are only a few omnibuses except in Russia.
• Omnibuses
  • only omnibus-collections - Most of omnibuses (97 of 103) were released in Russia.
• Non-Fiction
  • at the time books only (not articles, essays and prefaces)
• Edited Books
  • edited books by Clifford D. Simak (fiction and non-fiction)
• All Works
  • here a list of all mentioned entries, means a complete list with the works and the author books

Attention: If you change the preference "Type", it will change immediately and directly the whole content in the frame "Works".
The content of the other frames "Releases" and "Details" ...

• ... remains unaltered if the recently selected, work fits to the new selection (for example when there was recently displayed a story and you select now "Novels & Stories")
• ... will be deleted when the recent selected work does not fit into the new selection (for example, if recently a novel was displayed and now "Collections" is selected)

Note: If selected under "Type" "Stories", there might be the case of the special entry "_unknown Original Story" - this includes all translations of Clifford D. Simak-stories which I could not allocate to the English original title.
When the link was clicked and selected a release in the middle frame, sometimes in the right frame "Details" at the bottom you can find a note, which story it could be.

"Sort"

Here you can set up in which order the entries in the frame "works" shall be displayed:

• by title – the works appear in alphabetic order. The English articles "The" and "A" at the beginning of the title will be ignored
• by date - the works appear in the order of their first releases

Attention: When you change the preference "Sort", the whole order in the frame "Works" will be changed. The content of the other frames remains unchanged.

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"Language" and "Country"

The two list fields "Language" and "Country" affect the content of the frame "Works" but also the frame "Releases".

"Language"

You can select "all Languages" or particular languages. The order of the selection is "all languages" followed by "English" and after that all other languages in the order of the English alphabet.

In the case you change the preference ...

• ... the Frame "Works" displays only works, which exist in the selected language.
• ... the frame "Releases" displays only editions which include the selected work in the selected language.

"Country"

You can select "all countries" or particular ones. The order of the selection is "all countries" followed by "USA", "UK" and after that all other countries in the order of the English alphabet.

In the case you change the preferences ...

• ... the frame "Works" displays only works which were published in the selected country.
• ... the frame "Releases" displays only Editions which were published in the selected country.

Attention: The preference "Country" is subordinated to the preference "Language". In the case a language is already chosen, you can select under „Country“ only countries in which works by Clifford D. Simak were printed in the selected language.

To change the language or the country, affects the frames "Works" and "Releases". The content of the frames "Details" remains unaltered, even if there is an edition where language and country does not fit the undertaken preferences. This is intended! (see example 3)

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"Filter" and "Order"

These two preferences affect the frame "Releases".

"Filter"

This is an additional filter which enables you to influence the displayed Releases. Following options can be selected:

• Author books (editions which include only works by Clifford D. Simak [single issues, collections, omnibus-collections])
• Anthologies (editions which can include works by other authors, including omnibus-anthologies, except magazines)
• Magazines
• all Releases (Standard)

"Order"

Here, all displayed results in the frame "Releases" can be sorted. There are following options:

• by Date - (Standard) in order of the release date of the editions (not in the order of the release dates of the works!)
• by Language - first English followed by other languages in alphabetic order
• by Country - first USA, than UK,followed by other languages in alphabetic order
• by Title - sorted after the titles of the works (not editions!) in the selected language. First in the order of the of latin alphabets and than in Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
  • The following articles from different languages will be ignored when sorting: The, A, Der, Die, Das, Ein, Den, De, Het, L', La, Le, Les, Az, I, Il, Gli, Un, À, O, Os, As, Las, Los, El, Al, Una, Det und Ett.

The search results will appear in blocs, each bloc has a headline in a darker box.

Attention: If a work is already selected and the preference "Filter" and "Order" is changed, this work remain displayed. If you change "Filter" it can happen that no edition will be displayed because there are for example no releases of "Mutiny on Mercury" in any anthologies.

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Further preferences

Displaying of not released works | Hiding and Displaying of Thumbnails | Printing / Displaying a frame in a new tab/window

Displaying of not released works in an particular Language / Country

If you have selected a language or a country, at the top of the frame "Works" can be displayed a list and probably a link "xx unpublished works show".

If you click on this link the work-list displays now as well the works which are not released in the selected country or in the selected language.

• These entries are grey and you can not click on them.
• The preference remains unchanged even if you change language and/or country.

• To hide the not released works, click on the link "xx unpublished works hide".

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Hiding and Displaying of Thumbnails

The frame "Releases" displays as well thumbnails of the cover pictures. Depending on your selection the loading of the side can last quite long (for example the story "Desertion" has 229 Releases and 229 thumbnails!).

If you are bothered by the long loading times, click the link "Thumbnails hide". The thumbnails will be hidden. The details of an edition can now selected only via the link "Details”.

This preference remains unchanged even if other works, languages and countries are selected.

To display the thumbnails again click on the link "Thumbnails show".

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Printing / Displaying a frame in a new tab/window

The bibliography uses iFrames and is optimized for being displayed on a monitor. While trying to print a particular selection, there might appear some problems, for example instead of the content of the frame the content of the present content visible on the monitor will be printed.

Usually every browser has special function how single frames can be printed. Please inform yourself about the help functions of your browser.

Alternatively you can display any frame ("Works", "Releases", "Details") in a separate browser window. In each of the three frames there is at the bottom a link "Open this Frame in a new Tab/Window".

Click on this link and the frame you selected is displayed in a new tab or window (depending on the preferences of your browser).

Now you can print the content of the frames without problems while using the print option of your browser. You can use such a separate frame as well for other selections but the options are very limited.

To display again the complete frame set, click in the separate frame window on the link "Click here to view the complete frame set" or close the tab/window, because your primary working window is still kept.

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Special functions

Displaying of several works | Reset of all frames | Referencing of your selection | Setting the user language

Displaying of several works in the frame "Releases"

You find in the frame "Work" a link at the bottom of the list, which depends on the particular selection in "Type" for example "all Stories", "all Novels" etc. This link is not available in the case language and country are adjusted on “all”.

If you click on this link, the frame "Releases" displays not only the releases of a single work, but the releases of all works, according to the preferences (typ, language and country) displayed in the left frame „works“.

How many works are displayed, can be read under the links.

If there are more than 200, you get a warning after your click that the loading of the site can take time.

You have to click "Yes, I know the risk" for displaying the results in the middle frame.

For a better overview, in the frame "Releases" appears an additional line with the original title of a work.

Handle this function with care!

For example, the preference "all Works", "english" and "all countries" would display 1700 releases at once. Are the thumbnails adjusted on “on” there will be displayed 1700 thumbnails. It can happen that your browser will stop to react.

Attention: After the function "all stories", "all novels" etc. is adjusted, this preference remains unchanged even if you change "Language", "Country" or "Filter". For displaying again one single work click on an entry of your choice in the frame "Works".

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Reset of all frames

Click on the link "Clear". The contents of all three frames will be deleted and the list fields will be reset to its standard preference.

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Referencing of your selection

It might occur that you wish to reference a found entry and you want to send it as a link to a friend or to an internet forum.

All preferences you have adjusted can be saved as an URL with PHP parameters. But the URL in the address line of your browser does not change automatically when you have made your selection.

In this illustration the URL matches the current preferences.

In this illustration the URL does not match the current preferences.

This has technical reasons because I wanted to avoid that the side must be reloaded after each change of the preferences.

The particular recent URL according to your recent preferences you find at the top in the control section under the term Permalink".
You can:

• Click this link with the right mouse key and than copy the link address and paste it on another place.

• Click the link with the left mouse key – the site will be reloaded. The URL in the address line of your browser is now according to your recent preferences and can be copied.

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Setting the user language

You can change the user language of the bibliography at any time. Currently, two languages are available: English and German.

Hold your mouse over the link "User Lang[uage]" (German: "Ben[utzer]Sprache"). There are two flags visible. Click on the flag for the desired language.

The language of the user interface has been changed. The currently displayed data (works, releases and details) do not change.

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Further informations

Information on the content of the works | Enlarging of the displayed picture

Information on the content of the works

Often, when a story or a novel is selected, you find in the frame "Releases" a blue symbol .

If you click on this symbol, a short synopsis appears in the so-called fancy box.

To close the fancy box, click on the closing cross or anywhere outside of the box.

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Enlarging of the displayed picture

The frame "Details" displays the cover pictures of the editions with a maximal size of 400px.

Most images are available in a bigger resolution. In this case you find under the image the information "Click to enlarge" and the image measurements in pixel.

You can click on the link or on the image. It will appear enlarged (up to 750 pix) in a fancy box.

To close the fancy box, click on the closing cross or anywhere outside the box.

Attention:

• You can also click on an image when the hint "click to enlarge" does not appear. The image will displayed in a fancy box but can not be enlarged.
• It depends on the size of your monitor and your browser window if the actual size of 750 pix can be displayed.

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Examples for using the site

Example 1: You want to know which novels are released in Polish |
Example 2: You want to know which stories are not released in Italian |
Example 3: You want know which stories from the collection "Strangers in the Universe" are released in German

Example 1: You want to know which novels are released in Polish

Select ...

• ... in the list field "Type" "Novels",

• ... in the list field "Language" "Polish".

• In the frame "Works" you will see a list of all novels which are translated into Polish (but with their English original titles).
• Click each single link in the frame "Works". In the frame "Releases" appear the polish titles of the novels.

You can click as well below on the link "all Novels". In the frame "Releases" appear all novels translated into Polish with all editions.

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Example 2: You want to know which stories are not released in Italian

Select ...

• ... in the list field "Type" "Stories",

• ... in the list field "Language" "Italian".

• Click in the frame "Works" on the link "37 unpublished works show"

• All stories which are not translated into Italian appear in gray letters in the frame "Works"

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Example 3: You want know which stories from the collection "Strangers in the Universe" are released in German

This collection is not released in German and you have to select...

• ... in the list field "Type" "Collections",

• ... in the list field "Language" "all languages" or "English",

• ... in the frame "Works" the first entry "Strangers in the Universe",

• ... in the frame "Releases" the first entry "Strangers in the Universe ... Simon & Schuster 1956" (click on "Details“ or the thumbnail).

• Change now the language in the list field "Language" to "German"

• The Details of "Strangers in the Universe" remain visible, even though this collection does not exist in German.

• Scroll in the frame "Details" downwards.

• Click in the frame "Details" on the single links ("Shadow Show", "Contraption" etc.).
• The Frame "Releases" displays if each of the stories you have clicked on was translated into German and in which editions they were released.
• For example, "Shadow Show" was not translated.

• "The Answers" was translated.

(in this case, only 5 from 12 stories are translated into German)

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Special informations about languages and countries

Serbian / Croatian / Serbo-Croatian | Political changes in Eastern Europe

Serbian / Croatian / Serbo-Croatian

• There is a controversy discussion among linguists if Serbian and Croatian are two different languages.
• Until 1990 it was unquestionable one language called Serbo-Croatian.
• Probably rather for political reasons these two languages are considered separately.

• In this bibliography all released works in Serbian, Croatian and Serbo-Croatian are sub ordered under Serbian/Croatian

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Political changes in Eastern Europe

• In the 1990s, political changes took place in Eastern Europe.
• Editions, which were released before these changes are listed under the countries of the particular place of the publishing house.
• For pragmatic reasons, this “cut” is considered in complete years:
• GDR (German Democratic Republic) until 1990, from up to 1991 part of
  • Germany
• Czechoslovakia until 1992 (includes Czech and Slovak Federal Republic from 1990-1992), from up to 1993 separated into
  • Czech Republic and
  • Slovakia
• USSR (Soviet Union) until 1991, from up to 1992 divided into
  • Russia,
  • Azerbaijan,
  • Belarus,
  • Estonia,
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan,
  • Latvia,
  • Lithuania,
  • Moldova,
  • Ukraine
  • and other states that do not appear in this bibliography
• Yugoslavia – gradual decomposition between 1991 and 2006. In this bibliography are listed:
  • Croatia from up to 1992,
  • Slovenia from up to 1992,
  • Yugoslavia until 2002,
  • Serbia from up to 2003.

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