The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 1957 First Printing Signet Books Paperback - Richard Powers 20 Great Sci-Fi Summer Reads National Book Critics Circle Award

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1977)

led by Agamemnon

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the prelude to Dune—where we step onto the planet Arrakis…decades before Dune's hero

”This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland

The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 1957 First Printing Signet Books Paperback - Richard Powers 20 Great Sci-Fi Summer Reads National Book Critics Circle AwardCondition: Acceptable. Please see the image for more details. Blurb: Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars. But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes