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youusedtoknowhowtolovemeright 's review for:
City
by Clifford D. Simak
The back of this book was a little misleading. It talks about a future earth with AI, 'uplifted animals', interplanetary travel, genetic modification etc, making it sound a lot more exciting than it is.
It is, at the heart of it, a collection of short stories about an imagined future world, as imagined in the 1950s, where talking dogs rule the earth. Aside from dogs talking however, the earth doesn't seem massively different from how it was in the 1950s. There are houses with roaring fires, farms, cities - though they are beginning to become extinct. It doesn't even feel futuristic. Even the robots feel like an ancient idea of robots. Thousands of years pass at one point and there isn't all that much physically different on planet earth. The genetic modification and interplanetary travel are only really discussed in detail in one of the stories and then mentioned in passing in the others. The dogs take centre stage.
It was more philosophical than science-fiction I would say, and the science-fiction elements felt thrown together and not properly explained, like there were no solid rules to how the world worked.
The writing was nice, and there were some interesting ideas discussed in some of the stories, but apart from that, I didn't enjoy it much.
It is, at the heart of it, a collection of short stories about an imagined future world, as imagined in the 1950s, where talking dogs rule the earth. Aside from dogs talking however, the earth doesn't seem massively different from how it was in the 1950s. There are houses with roaring fires, farms, cities - though they are beginning to become extinct. It doesn't even feel futuristic. Even the robots feel like an ancient idea of robots. Thousands of years pass at one point and there isn't all that much physically different on planet earth. The genetic modification and interplanetary travel are only really discussed in detail in one of the stories and then mentioned in passing in the others. The dogs take centre stage.
It was more philosophical than science-fiction I would say, and the science-fiction elements felt thrown together and not properly explained, like there were no solid rules to how the world worked.
The writing was nice, and there were some interesting ideas discussed in some of the stories, but apart from that, I didn't enjoy it much.