![]() By the end, humans have largely propagated outward to other planets, and Earth is left to the intelligent dog civilization, to whom these stories are myths. The book tells the future of humanity as it abandons cities for country estates and then moves off Earth to settle other planets, and in parallel the rise of an artificially created Dog civilization. It’s Simak’s most popular book along with his Way Station, published a decade later. ![]() An enduring work, it won one of the very earliest awards for SF or fantasy, the International Fantasy Award, in 1953 (two years after Stewart’s Earth Abides, which I reviewed here in January, won the same award). City was his earliest significant work, published in 1952 but composed of stories published mostly in Astounding from 1944 onward. Campbell’s Astounding in the 1940s (and later Galaxy in the 1950s). Simak was a Midwestern US newspaperman who wrote science fiction on the side, and published stories beginning in the 1930s in magazines like Wonder Stories until finding a home in John W. ![]() ![]() Gnome Press (224 pages, $2.75 in hardcover, May 1952)Ĭlifford D. First Edition: Gnome Books, 1952.Ĭover by Frank Kelly Freas (click to enlarge) ![]()
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