Due to our usual second monthly meeting falling on Dec 26th, we will instead have one large meeting and split into two groups of equal size, Humans and Clones.
Far in the future Dogs & Robots have a shared mythology of a creature called Man that strode the Earth before Dogs and Robot evolved. But was Man real or is he simply a mythic creation used to scare pups at bed kennel-time? City is considered Simak’s seminal work and is eight short stories or myths of Dogkind with critical interpretation between each, to help readers make up their own minds on ‘Man’.
City is set on a far future Earth where mankind’s achievements are immense: artificially intelligence, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars . . . ?
