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The City and the Stars

by Arthur C. Clarke · 1956 · 255 pages

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Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.

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Genre
aliens and first contactscience fictiondystopiafantasyadventure
Setting
futuristic
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 255 pages

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