Description
In the distant future, the magnificent city of Diaspar stands as humanity's last bastion, shielded for millennia by a protective dome from a decaying world. Once a civilization that commanded the stars, its inhabitants now live in a state of stagnant perfection, their history shrouded in legend. When a young man, deemed a Unique, begins to question the city's rigid order, he embarks on a perilous journey that will shatter their myths and reveal the astonishing truth about their past and the nature of the universe.
Available Editions
paperback
Gollancz
Published Mar 8, 2001
256 pages
ISBN: 9781857987638
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Details
First Published
1956
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke.
War/Trauma