Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge...
So begins The City and the Stars , a 1953 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke [1]. This story presages today's virtual worlds or massively multiplayer online role-playing games, and it raises the fundamental question about them. We should not merely ask whether they are a kind of...
作者:Arthur C. Clarke 书名:The City and the Stars《城市与星星》 英文简介: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 an...
作者:Arthur C. Clarke 出品人: 页数:544 译者: 出版时间:2001-9-1 价格:USD 14.95 装帧:Paperback isbn号码:9780446677967 丛书系列: 图书标签:British The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 Two classic novels are collected in this volume that includes a...
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke豆瓣评分:0.0 简介:Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction aut
作者: C Mulholland 摘要: Alluding to Arthur C. Clarke's novel The City and The Stars, this exhibition stimulates us to consider afresh beliefs and knowledge from which we generate meaning, and encourages us to reflect upon and explore society and the spaces we inhabit. The World From Memory...
For all their color and excitement, their varying locales and themes, there was something missing... Technovelgy from The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke. Published by Frederick Muller Ltd in 1956 Additional resources - Clarke continues ...
...At any moment, Alvin, only a hundredth of the citizens of Diaspar live and walk in its streets. The vast majority sleep in the memory banks... Technovelgy from The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke. Published by Frederick Muller Ltd in 1956 Additional resources - Compare...
In Arthur C. Clarke’s The Star, a manned spaceship travels to the edge of the galaxy to explore a nebula (cloud of interstellar gas) surrounding a collapsed star. Within the nebula is a burnt out planet that miraculously survived the explosion. On the planet is a huge stone marker left...