An excellent copy.The SFFaudio Podcast #452 – Jesse, Scott, and Paul Weimer talk about The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Book with tiny abrasion on front board, otherwise fine dust jacket with slight wear at spine ends. Octavo, blue boards with silver lettering on spine. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1956. The City and the Stars, perhaps more than any of Clarke's books, defines this paradox in its 'vision of a future as good as our past captures the aspirations of religion and lends justification to science, but most of all, it gives its readers a vision of our race made worthwhile and a fairy tale we can help to come true.' (Eric S.

'The paradox of Clarke's fiction is that the writer most associated in the public mind with accurate 'hard ' predictions, based upon existing and potential technology and grounded in 'real' science, returns again and again to themes of an almost mystical or metaphysical sort, in which advanced cultures, often benevolent, allow humanity to transcend its Earth-bound beginnings.' (The Telegraph, 'Arthur C. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.'įIRST EDITION, review copy.

'In this Universe, the night was falling the shadows were lengthening toward an east that would not know another dawn.

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