![]() ![]() Heinlein "Just about any work by Simak deserves to be considered a classic and City is no exception. The reader who does not like Simak stories does not like science-fiction at all." -Robert A. "To read science-fiction is to read Simak. ![]() ![]() Winner of the International Fantasy Award, City is a magnificent literary metropolis filled with an astonishing array of interlinked stories and structures-at once dystopian, transcendent, compassionate, and visionary. Simak's writing blazed as brightly as anyone's in the science fiction firmament. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man." In the Golden Age of Asimov and Heinlein, Clifford D. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. ![]() Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never return. Intelligent canines in a far-future city preserve the legends and lore of their absent human masters Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city-first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion-leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. ![]()
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