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City by Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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[Comment by John Clute][1]: > We know better now, of course. But they still entrance us, the old page-turners from the glory days of American SF, half a century or so ago, when the world was full of futures we were never going to have. In the mid-1940s, when he began to publish the episodes that would be assembled as City in 1952, Clifford Simak, a Minneapolis-based journalist and author, could still carry us away with the dream that cars and pollution and even the great cities of the world – "Huddling Place", the title of one of these tales, is his own derisory term for them – would soon be brushed off the map by Progress, leaving nothing behind but tasteful exurbs filled with middle-class nuclear families living the good life, with fishing streams and greenswards sheltering each home from the stormy blast. > Fortunately, Simak soon gets past this demented vision of a near-future world saved by technological fixes, a dementia common then to SF writers and gurus and politicians alike, and launches into an astonishingly eventful narrative of the next 10,000 years as seen through the eyes of one family and the immortal robot Jenkins, and all told with a weird pastoral serenity that f

Who reads City?

Author

Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988.

Publisher

Ace Fantasy Books, 1983, c1980.

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780441106264

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

4.11 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14