Simak was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. * * * Like every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops -- even though the natives tried to disuade him. This thing scared them out of their minds, it really did, and who could say why?