As Cidades Mortas

As Cidades Mortas de Clifford Simak. Capa: Lima de Freitas. Tradução de "City", vencedor do International Fantasy Award em 1952. Precursor do prêmio Hugo. Considerada umas das maiores obras de FC -- em 1966, os leitores da Revista Analog apontaram "City" como uma das dez melhores obras do género, em todos os tempos.

"As Cidade Mortas" de Simak é uma série de histórias conectadas, uma série de lendas, mitos e histórias de fogueira contada por Cães sobre o Homem e o fim da civilização humana, centrando-se na saga da Família Webster, em naves destinadas a levar o Homem às estrelas, e na dádiva de ofertar aos cães o dom da palavra e robôs para suas mãos.

[Wikipedia] City is a 1952 science fiction fix-up novel by Clifford D. Simak. The original version consists of eight linked short stories, all originally published between 1944 and 1951, along with brief "notes" on each of the stories. Simak published a ninth City tale in 1973 called "Epilog". A 1980 edition of City includes this ninth tale; some (but not all) subsequent editions of the book also include "Epilog". The novel describes a legend consisting of eight tales the pastoral and pacifist Dogs recite as they pass down an oral legend of a creature known as Man. Each tale is preceded by doggish notes and learned discussion. (...) Simak's vision of human apocalypse is unusual, not one of destruction, but simply of isolation. Much of humankind becomes so lonely that it eventually dies off. (...) The ninth (and last) tale in the City saga was penned by Simak in 1973, twenty-two years after he wrote the previous episode. Jenkins is on the original Earth, living at the old Webster home, surrounded on all sides by the Ant City. He comes to realize that the Ant City is dead, just as a spaceship returns to take him to the robot worlds. Breaking through the wall of the city, he sees nothing but infinitely repeated versions of a single sculpture; a human boot kicking over an anthill....

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