The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 1957 First Printing Signet Books Paperback - Richard Powers 20 Great Sci-Fi Summer Reads is considered by many to

is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece

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

the United States itself was not attacked again after Pearl Harbor

led by Agamemnon

But the stakes were greater than she dared dream

The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 1957 First Printing Signet Books Paperback - Richard Powers 20 Great Sci-Fi Summer Reads is considered by many toCondition: 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