The City and the Stars
by Arthur C Clarke
science fiction
copyright 1968
read in November 2021 (and before)
rated 7/10: well worth reading
This is the story of humanity split in three: the high tech city dwellers, the telepathic low-tech country folk and the citizens of a space empire. The time scale is galactic: at least a thousand million years of human future history. The action is scaled down to follow just one person, one person who brings humanity together again. But slowly...
Just when you think that's it, all problems are solved -- there's more. The book covers all aspects of a huge story. And no, it is not boring. The time-scale is huge, the story is well-contained.
This book also contains a sequence which sticks in my mind, as a part of what I call dexitroboping. It's the restoration of sanity to the robot... if that helps :-)
The scale is huge. The book also includes chapters where the author is saying, Look at my enormous imagination... how else can you explain the planets round the seven suns?
It's a good book. Enjoyable for its story. And eye-opening for the scale of the action.
Also... The virtual world of the City is better than that in Ready Player Two.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
===There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters." ... Boris Johnson
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