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The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN: 47098
Pages: 191
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Publisher: Signet
Book Type: Paperback
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Classic Clarke: the Earth is a wasteland, the last remnants of humanity gathered in a domed city. The hero is the first human child to be born for a million years -- born with a tireless curiosity about the world outside the city and all the worlds he sees in the sky...
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Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, A Unique to break through Diaspars stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered Kings college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, The Sentinel. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.