City

I love Clifford D. Simak's writing. He's known as writing "pastoral" science fiction, where there is an emphasis on rural settings and characters. This collection of related short stories mostly has pastoral settings, although it begins with the demise of the city. Like many of his novels, it also involves robots. In these stories, there's also ants and dogs. I liked this book but wasn't moved as much as I have been by other works by him. The prose is gorgeous, but I just wasn't engaged in many of the stories. Still this book won an International Fantasy Award in 1952 and is considered a classic.

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