This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world
inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human
forefathers.
Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city--first
for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for
oblivion--leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth.
Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce
Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human
history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through
generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never
return. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live
in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from
their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being
the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man."
In the Golden Age of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D.
Simak's writing blazed as brightly as anyone's in the science fiction
firmament. Winner of the International Fantasy Award, City is a
magnificent literary metropolis filled with an astonishing array of
interlinked stories and structures--at once dystopian, transcendent,
compassionate, and visionary.
