![]() ![]() In this novel, man’s exploration of space took place billions of years in the past and the universe is now out of bounds – not by force, but by choice. The City and the Stars likewise presents a new perspective but this time it’s mankind that is unfamiliar. While all of the novels (at least the ones that I’ve read) focus on man’s compulsion to explore the stars, man’s relationship to those stars is very different in each. The City and the Stars is a rather unusual book and makes me marvel, yet again, at the breadth of Arthur C. It takes one man, A Unique to break through Diaspar’s stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.’ But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. ‘Clarke’s masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel… Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Clarke 2013 Reading Challenge book is The City and the Stars, published in 1956 and now available from Gollancz ![]()
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