Series
City
Clifford D. Simak · 6 novelettes · 12 short stories · 1 collection · 1944–1973
City is Clifford D. Simak's fix-up novel, assembling eight linked stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s and framed as legends dogs tell about a half-mythical creature called Man. It follows humanity's gradual abandonment of its cities and eventual departure from Earth, while the dogs left behind are surgically uplifted into a peaceable, speaking civilization of their own. The book won the International Fantasy Award in 1952.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Map
City at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s7
- 1950s11
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
Shape
6 novelettes · 12 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionrobotsour worldfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book11 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Hobbiesdarkest
- Huddling Placebrightest · calmest
- Citymost intense