![]() ![]() The City and the Stars is set a billion years in the future. ![]() It’s unusual to come across any fantasy from Arthur C. ![]() And unlike many of his other books, that’s the case with Clarke’s 1956 classic, The City and the Stars. It’s certainly not hard science fiction, even when it comes from the mind of one of the most celebrated authors of hard SF, Arthur C. But when a writer ventures far into the future, speculating about the emergence of technologies that bear no recognizable relationship to what is known today about how the universe is organized, it’s difficult to regard the product as anything other than fantasy. That line is hard and fast when an SF story is firmly grounded in known science. Between science fiction and fantasy the line is often blurry. ![]()
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