![]() Like a glowing jewel, the city lay upon the breast of the desert. No one ever leaves and nothing ever changes. The book begins in Diasper, a city where people live forever, by being reborn with memories of their past lives intact from a city-wide “Memory Bank”. In 1956, Clarke finished his masterpiece, The City and the Stars. ![]() In 1974, he predicted the rise of personal computers, and his books still feel futuristic, fifty years later. He had an intuitive sense of the future – the ability to predict where we were heading in terms of technology and human progress. Clarke.Ĭlarke was one of the most visionary science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. We travel down the same roads, over the same bridges, to get to the same places we have always been to.īut what if one day we took a different turn? What if, down a new road, we discovered something new, something we did not know we were looking for to begin with? This is the future according to Arthur C. ![]() We are shaped by our memories, but those memories have a way of taking over our future. ![]() The novel is about how we can trap ourselves into cycles of repetition, doing what we have always done, feeding our old habits, and losing our curiosity for the world. On the first page, he wrote the dedication: May your path also transcend the cycles that stifle progress. ![]()
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