The City and The Stars is a fixup of Clarke’s earlier novella, Against the Fall of Night. And while Clarke’s Three Laws are less well-remembered as Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, they’ve been influential nonetheless. His writing career was just as expansive, and includes a number of highly-regarded works: The City and The Stars, Childhood’s End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rendezvous with Rama.
Clarke has a solid background in science, dating back to his days as a RAF radar instructor he later pioneered the idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunications. Together with Asimov and Heinlein, Clarke makes the Golden Age trifecta, the first three major authors of the genre. Clarke is one of the most well-known science fiction authors, in no small part because of his influence on the genre.
(Views that were more or less unanimous with the rest of the class.)Īrthur C. The only Clarke I’ve read prior was Childhood’s End, for a writing science fiction class I thought the novel’s concept was superb, but that it was bogged down from too much authorial exposition, too much telling and not enough showing. In this case, it’s Clarke’s The City and The Stars, long regarded one of the greatest and most influential novels of the Golden Age. (Hence Door into Summer and Blood Music, among others.) Though, in most cases, I don’t see the point of going over something everyone and their cousin has read and reviewed don’t expect to see Dune, The Lord of the Rings, or The Maltese Falcon here anytime soon.
No, sometimes I change it up and read something in the genre that makes a lot of best-of lists and award nominations. Contrary to popular belief, my focus isn’t just the trashiest, pulpiest paperbacks I can get my hands on.
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