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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Pretty good connected set of short stories. Basically tells the story of the fall of man and the rise of robots and dogs. And ants? Classic sf, showing it's age a little bit. And it ends kind of abruptly. But as a pseudo-history set of legends it works pretty well. 3.5 of 5.
Направо ме побиваха тръпки тук-там! Изключително дълбоки съждения за съществуването на човечеството. Лично на мен, една от най-интересните представени гледни точки ми се стори тази, отнасяща се до въпросът за посоката, която човечеството е поело. Дали наистина сме я избрали или е тя е просто нещо, което е генетично заложено?
В измисления бъдещ свят, Саймък представя индивидуализмът на хората като първоизточник на деградацията, която успява да надделее дори векове след като последният акт на насилие е извършен. Мечтите и стремежите ни са фундаментално сгрешени, което води до неизбежен, пагубен край. На расата ни не е присъща стабилност....за това кучетата наследяват планетата! Дали обаче ще справят по-добре от нас? Е, най-вероятно никога няма да разберем....
В измисления бъдещ свят, Саймък представя индивидуализмът на хората като първоизточник на деградацията, която успява да надделее дори векове след като последният акт на насилие е извършен. Мечтите и стремежите ни са фундаментално сгрешени, което води до неизбежен, пагубен край. На расата ни не е присъща стабилност....за това кучетата наследяват планетата! Дали обаче ще справят по-добре от нас? Е, най-вероятно никога няма да разберем....
After reading these vignettes about robots and sentient dogs, I was left asking the question, "Why is this book called 'City'?"
challenging
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
As a collection of short stories published as a novel, it works rather well. There are more shared threads in these stories than in, say, the stories in "I, Robot" or "The Martian Chronicles." Though many of those threads are never resolved.
I think it is telling that the novel takes its title from the first story, which is about people leaving a City forever... the first note in the novel is nostalgia and loss, and that repeats as the (interchangeable) male descendants of the Webster family first leave the city, then leave behind wandering, then leave their old homestead and finally leave the Earth. The persistent threads are a yearning for patrician noble living, yet a dissatisfaction with the idleness and meaninglessness of that existence.
It is a profoundly white male upper class story. Yet it has some lovely sections, usually when it abandons humans. The section on Jupiter is lovely, and the wry commentary from future canine historians.
I think it is telling that the novel takes its title from the first story, which is about people leaving a City forever... the first note in the novel is nostalgia and loss, and that repeats as the (interchangeable) male descendants of the Webster family first leave the city, then leave behind wandering, then leave their old homestead and finally leave the Earth. The persistent threads are a yearning for patrician noble living, yet a dissatisfaction with the idleness and meaninglessness of that existence.
It is a profoundly white male upper class story. Yet it has some lovely sections, usually when it abandons humans. The section on Jupiter is lovely, and the wry commentary from future canine historians.