Ciudad

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Clifford D. Simak: Ciudad (Paperback, 2002, Ediciones Minotauro)

Paperback, 312 pages

English language

Published Aug. 3, 2002 by Ediciones Minotauro.

ISBN:
978-84-450-7412-1
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OCLC Number:
51170639

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Comment by John Clute:

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 …

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Subjects

  • Fantasy - General
  • Fiction - Fantasy