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I read this book in high school, having got it through the Science Fiction Book Club, and now Goodreads has recommended it to me, based on my "alltimefavorites" shelf. Hm. Nope. Not an all-time favorite. A weird, vaguely amusing but also vaguely unsettling little book, trying at the same time to be witty and shocking, with its vision of the future wherein humans have left the earth (and, it's implied, met a bad end) and so dogs have evolved. The dogs don't seem to do a whole lot, they have amusi
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'city' shares a whole lot of DNA with Foundation and I, Robot: a bunch of loosely connected stories slowly builds to a whole picture, without a central character to anchor them. with improvements in technology (farming, transportation, economics), the necessity for people to band together into cities is dissolved, leading to the eventual end of war (if you can't shoot at a target, well...), and perhaps the end of civilization wherein everything goes to the dogs. it's a novel of ideas rather than
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One Goodreads reviewer said he didn't like City because it didn't make sense biologically or philosophically. Which I agree, it is pretty absurd. But the absurdness is really a vehicle for the ideas of the book. City is like candy crack for the brain.
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