The City and the Cygnets
- Authors: Michael Bishop
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- Type: Novel
- Genres: Science fiction
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- Rating: 3.8 based on 6 reviews
- Release Date: August 20, 2019
- Print length: 466 pages (Paperback)
About the book
"[These] stories... elliptically chronicle the life of an alternative Atlanta, Georgia, 2000-2070. Beneath a huge artificial dome that blocks out the stars, hierarchically stashed on nine subterranean levels with computer-controlled simulations of weather and seasonal change, the citizens of this grim, bureaucracy-ridden sardine tin... contrive not just to endure but to prevail. Through 70 years of increasing repression, various free spirts turn a living cubicle into a facsimile of a starship in deep space, experiment with multipartner 'marriages' for the elderly, or dearly earn moments of mutual benison with an unwanted cubicle-mate... . bearing witness to the weedlike survival of human instinct and aspiration in the most confining and programmed environment." [from Kirkus Reviews]
Praise for this book:
"One of the great extrapolative achievements of science fiction." - Robert Silverberg
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