City (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Clifford D. Simak
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: From the 1990’s until thousands of years in the future
- Setting: Earth, Jupiter, and another dimension
- Genres: Long fiction, Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Social issues, Communication, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds, Science fiction, 1990’s, Ants, Robots or robotics, Animals, Mars, Metamorphosis or transmogrification, Cities or towns, Fables
- Locales: Geneva, Switzerland, Jupiter
The Plot
Winner of the 1953 International Fantasy Award for best fiction, City is assembled primarily from eight stories published between 1944 and 1951. Framed by an “Editor’s Preface” and “Notes,” these tales are presented as a future ethnographer’s collection of “the stories that the Dogs tell.” After the death of John W. Campbell, Jr., in 1971, Clifford D. Simak wrote a ninth story for editor Harry Harrison’s Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (1973); in 1980 this last story was added to a revised version of City, along...
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