The Werewolf Principle

1967 novel by Clifford D. Simak

The Werewolf Principle

Dust-jacket from the first edition

Author| Clifford D. Simak
Cover artist| Richard Powers
Country| United States
Language| English
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Putnam Publishing

Publication date

| 1967
Media type| Print (Hardback)
Pages| 216 pp
OCLC| 2648580

The Werewolf Principle is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak. It was originally published by Putnam, with a paperback edition following from Berkley Books in 1968. A British hardcover was also released in 1967, with translations following into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Lithuanian. Later American paperbacks were issued by DAW Books and by Carroll & Graf.[1]

The novel deals with an amnesiac space traveler who discovers he shares his body with a wolf-like alien and a cybernetic consciousness.[2]

## Reception[edit]

Judith Merril gave The Werewolf Principle a mixed review, saying that "it was an ambitious concept, obviously thought through seriously and with care; it deserved something more than to turn into a (very) well told routine novel.[3] Fritz Leiber, however, found that Simak "does mostly an unconvincing job.[4] Analog reviewer P. Schuyler Miller rated the novel "good, but not outstanding", praising Simak's depiction of "a totally strange, but strangely satisfying, future Earth" while uncomfortable with the story's "pretty violent action".[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ ISFDB bibliography
2. ^ "The Werewolf Principle" Publishers Weekly capsule review, May 30, 1994.
3. ^ "Books". F&SF: 51–52. May 1968.
4. ^ "Fantasy Books". Fantastic: 137. November 1968.
5. ^ "The Reference Library". Analog: 162. June 1968.

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Novels by Clifford D. Simak

* The Creator (1946)
* Cosmic Engineers (1950)
* Time and Again (1951)
* City (1952)
* Ring Around the Sun (1953)
* Time is the Simplest Thing (1961)
* Way Station (1963)
* All Flesh is Grass (1965)
* The Werewolf Principle (1967)
* Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (1967)
* The Goblin Reservation (1968)
* Shakespeare's Planet (1976)
* The Visitors (1980)
* Project Pope (1981)

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