City
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: October 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780441106264
Copyright date: 1952
Table of contents: title: A collection of 8 stories by Clifford D. Simak, each preceded by an explanatory prologue.; title: On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots (the good and the wild robots), genetically uplifted animals, the legends and history of the ascendancy of Dogs who take over the earth, the emergence of the cobblies and the insistence on the law of not killing, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself.; title: The cities of the world are deserted and automation has invaded every aspect of human life; the robots make spaceships; the ants create huge buildings on the remains of old towns.; title: But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars ...?; title: Contents:; title: City (1944);; title: Huddling Place (1944);; title: Census (1944);; title: Desertion (1944);; title: Paradise (1946);; title: Hobbies (1946);; title: Aesop (1947);; title: The Simple Way.