City
★★★★★Read Oct 6, 2014
A lovely and meditative series of short stories, about evolution and culture and man's fundamental nature. Presages some popular modern sci-fi themes, particularly The Singularity. The prose is a bit dated, not to mention the science (animals walking on the surface of Jupiter!) but that just lends to the charm, and the themes of the book carry through. It reminds me in some ways of Cloud Atlas, the series of interlocking stories, it would be lovely to see a similar film treatment.
Goodreads readers give it 4.07★, from 19,653 ratings. I gave it 3★, −1.1, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Classics, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Animals, Dogs.
Won International Fantasy Award 1953.