Nobody has come in or left the city for as long as anybody can remember. The city of Diaspar is completely enclosed. As far as the people of Diaspar know, they are the only city left on the planet. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. By this time, the Earth is so old that the oceans have gone and humanity has all but left. Clarke) takes place a billion years in the future, in the city of Diaspar. and, ultimately, to the stars themselves.The City and the Stars (a novel by Arthur C. What existed outside the city? Why were men so afraid to explore? Through the ages, there had existed a rare few like Alvin - where had they vanished? And for what purpose was he created? But with every answer, new mysteries emerged, as Alvin's quest took him across the desert to a land far different from the one he knew. no one but Alvin.Īnd do he set out to find the answers to his questions.
It mattered little that Man had once possessed the stars and might still be out there building empires. Since its construction over a billion years ago, Earth's oceans had passed away and the great mountains and civilizations crumbled to dust, yet the city remained changeless in all but subtle ways. Yet, though it was full of wonder, it was empty of surprise. 77, of Stephens City, VA, died Saturday, April 22, 2023, at Evergreen Health and Rehab in Winchester, VA. Diaspar had been designed to instantly fulfill every human need and desire, and that should have been enough for anyone. His insatiable curiosity threatened to doom him to a life of frustration, because he always wanted to go outside.īut to cross into the limitless open space beyond the city walls was unthinkable there was nothing there, he'd been told, nothing but endless desert. But when Alvin walked almost fully-grown from the Hall of Creation twenty years ago, he didn't know that he was different from Diaspar's other citizens - that, unlike them, he would never recall memories from countless past lives or be content to stay forever in this tiny, closed world. He was the first new person to be born in the city for at least ten million years. The City and the Stars is a complete rewrite of an earlier novella, Against the Fall of Night (1948).
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