#thecityandthestars

[bonnettsbooks]

Vintage #ArthurCClarke! #TheCityAndTheStars revises his first novel, "Against the Fall of Night." #ChilhoodsEnd bears some thematic resemblance to "1984", but aliens are our oppressors. 9/15/22 Open 6:30-9p Mask recommended. No open containers, please. (at Bonnett's Book Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiioXIXPxND/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[yutethebeaute]

#mylibrary #arthurcclarke #thecityandthestars Another SF classic in this lockdown bookathon. Originally recommended by Mr. W. This is the third book by this author I have read and, unlike “Childhood’s End” or “2001”, this is surprisingly touching human story. Inspiring. (at Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xhV6RDNgY/?igshid=o6qsdjg15n5s

[throughmachineanddarkness]

The CIty and The Stars is Arthur C Clarke’s fable of a far distant future, millions of years after our civilisation has vanished into dust. Known for his extraordinary prescience with regards to technology, Clarke’s visions of alien and artificial intelligence in this novel offer interesting reflections for our present moment.

‘Lying beneath him was a dead city of strange, white buildings, a city bleached by a fierce light not meant for human eyes. Dead it might be for it had never lived, but it pulsed with energies more potent than any that had ever quickened organic matter’ 

[Vanamonde]: ‘He’s a pure mentality, and his knowledge seems unlimited … Has a collosal, perhaps an infinite mind … The whole of the past seems open to his mind in a way that's diffiult to describe, there’s no doubt that his origin is bound up with all the great mysteries of the past’

–– Arthur C Clarke, The City and The Stars

[soundattacks]

This is the perfect song for my amazing day.