DAVID W. WIXON was a close friend of Clifford D. Simak s. As Simak s health declined, Wixon, already familiar with science fiction publishing, began more and more to handle such things as his friend s business correspondence and contract matters. Named literary executor of the estate after Simak s death, Wixon began a long-term project to secure the rights to all of Simak s stories and find a way to make them available to readers who, given the fifty-five-year span of Simak s writing career, might never have gotten the chance to enjoy all of his short fiction. Along the way, Wixon also read th...