DIASP, a huge metropolis of the future. A superciviltà reach the ultimate stage of development. A desert planet, hostile, "forbidden" It is against this background that moves Alvin, the young hero of this novel, which remains among the most famous of Clarke. The question that haunts him is: how to discover the ancient secrets of the human race? How to get out of the maze under glass and return to space flight?
The idea of \u200b\u200bThe City and the Stars is ambition calculatedly neutral: do not go in the future, but at a time so distant that the future of science fiction looks like ordinary remote past, to which we must not be nostalgic. The man, after millions of years of battles, built an artificial world hath been closed: the world is called DIASP, even where there is no death and no more children, regulations, program, secure by a large central computer, built from intelligence higher a few million years ago ...
introduction of Lorenzo Arruga
The author
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke ( Minehead, December 16 1917 - Colombo, March 19 2008) was a science fiction author British inventor and . Clarke is the most well known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968, grew up with the screenplay film of the same name made with the director Stanley Kubrick and inspired by the short story Sentry Clarke of the same. The writer has to his credit, however, a very extensive literature, including the famous series of Rama. It is considered a hard science fiction author or "classic" as a salient feature of his novels is the focus on the scientific plausibility. In his honor, the geostationary orbit of the Earth has been called " Clarke Band." In fact, he was the first to suggest in an article published in 1945, using the geostationary orbit satellites for dedicated to telecommunications .
Title: The city and the stars
Original title: The City and the Stars
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher: Mondadori
Collection: Collection Urania
Publication: 2004 (the first in 1954)
Pages: 389
Price: € 4.90
introduction of Lorenzo Arruga
The author
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke ( Minehead, December 16 1917 - Colombo, March 19 2008) was a science fiction author British inventor and . Clarke is the most well known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968, grew up with the screenplay film of the same name made with the director Stanley Kubrick and inspired by the short story Sentry Clarke of the same. The writer has to his credit, however, a very extensive literature, including the famous series of Rama. It is considered a hard science fiction author or "classic" as a salient feature of his novels is the focus on the scientific plausibility. In his honor, the geostationary orbit of the Earth has been called " Clarke Band." In fact, he was the first to suggest in an article published in 1945, using the geostationary orbit satellites for dedicated to telecommunications .
Title: The city and the stars
Original title: The City and the Stars
Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher: Mondadori
Collection: Collection Urania
Publication: 2004 (the first in 1954)
Pages: 389
Price: € 4.90
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