Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars

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Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars

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One of Clarke's classics. A dramatised reading with character voices. On the whole I'd have preferred a well-read straight reading but it's pretty good & the only one available.

A man goes on a search to discover the past & future of mankind.

A billion years into the future, Earth's oceans have evaporated-and humanity has all but vanished. The inhabitants of the City of Diaspar believe theirs is the last city-but there is no way to find out for sure. The city is completely closed off by a high wall, and nobody has left in millions of years.

The last child born in the city in millions of years, Alvin is insatiably curious about the outside world. He embarks on a quest that leads him to discover the truth about the city and humanity's history-as well as its future.

The City and the Stars is a rewrite of Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night. While the author assumed that the old version would be re

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