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City by Clifford D. Simak7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Then each family circle gathers at the hearthstone and the pups sit silently and listen and when the story’s done they ask many questions: ‘These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. ![]() And yet I still really don’t know why, but maybe this review will shed some light on that. These days, thirty-odd years on, City is one of my Simak favourites: more than that, it is one of my all-time favourites. To my younger self, City was a bit of a puzzle on first reading. (Mark Charan Newton has since referred to it as ‘rural SF’, which sorta works.) Instead of Star Wars bang-whizz action, we have pastoral introspection, Waltons-style homily and self-depreciating humour.Īnd in City in particular we have robots, ants and dogs. At first I wasn’t sure – it wasn’t spaceships and action, but instead a much more subtle and gentle SF. Originally published 1952, after a fix up from stories 1944-1951.Ĭlifford/Cliff Simak is an author I first came to when I was a teenager in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. ![]()
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