The novel is set up as eight small stories that are self-contained but carry a plot showing the changes on Earth between 190 years in the future. He was worried about not just nuclear devastation (legit) but a society that he saw as slowly stultifying into uselessness. That’s why I love to read classic science fiction!įrom the Foreward, and the time period, it’s obvious Simak was attempting to wrestle with the changing world around him. This novel would be entirely different were it written today – and that’s fine. It’s interesting as a piece of reactionary art from a specific time period. Overall, did I like it? Yes, it was really interesting. It’s both a story and not a story, it’s post-apocalyptic but not in the same sense that we’re used to, and it has some dated aspects (as to be expected). This is a hard book to review because it requires a lot of balance. I decided to read this novel after hearing it was comparable to Sea of Rust, though they definitely only share the “robot” aspect and nothing else. “City is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and robots to be their hands.” It won the International Fantasy Award and a lot of the themes in the novel are still applicable today! Simak’s City is a classic science fiction from 1952.
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