The Creator and Other Stories

Clifford D. Simak

This first world edition published in Great Britain 1993 by

SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD of

9-15 High Street, Sutton, Surrey SMI IDF.

First published in the USA 1993 by

SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC., of

475 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

Introduction Copyright (c) Francis Lyall 1993

All rights reserved.

The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

The Creator. Copyright (c) 1935 by Fantasy Publications. Copyright (c) 1963 by Clifford D. Simak Shotgun Care. Copyright (c) 1960 by Mercury Press, Inc. Copyright (c) 1988 by Clifford D. Simak.

All the Traps of Earth. Copyright (c) 1960 by Mercury Press, Inc. Copyright (c) 1988 by Clifford D. Simak Death Scene. Copyright (c) 1957 by Royal Publications, Inc. Copyright (c)

1985 by Clifford D. Simak.

Reunion on Ganymede. Copyright (c) Street and Smith Publications, Inc. Copyright (c) 1966 by Clifford D. Simak.

The Money Tree. Copyright (c) 1958 by Mercury Press, Inc. Copyright (c)

1986 by Clifford D. Simak.

Party Line. Copyright (c) 1978 by Charter Communications, Inc.

The Answers. Copyright (c) 1953 (Under the title And The Truth Shall Make You Free) by Columbia Publications, Inc. Copyright (c)

1981 by Clifford D Simak.

The Thing in the Stone, Copyright (c) 1970 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. All stories are published by permission of the Estate of Clifford D. Simak

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Simak, Clifford D.

Creator. - New ed

I. Title

813.54 [F]

ISBN 0-7278-4569-1 [cased] ISBN 0-7278-9004-2 [paper]

All situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental.

Typeset by Hewer Text Composition Services, Edinburgh. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

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