It mattered little that Man had once possessed the stars and might still be out there building empires.
Since its construction over a billion years ago, Earth's oceans had passed away and the great mountains and civilizations crumbled to dust, yet the city remained changeless in all but subtle ways. Yet, though it was full of wonder, it was empty of surprise. Diaspar had been designed to instantly fulfill every human need and desire, and that should have been enough for anyone. His insatiable curiosity threatened to doom him to a life of frustration, because he always wanted to go outside.īut to cross into the limitless open space beyond the city walls was unthinkable there was nothing there, he'd been told, nothing but endless desert. But when Alvin walked almost fully-grown from the Hall of Creation twenty years ago, he didn't know that he was different from Diaspar's other citizens - that, unlike them, he would never recall memories from countless past lives or be content to stay forever in this tiny, closed world. He was the first new person to be born in the city for at least ten million years. Tech news articles related to works by Arthur C.The City and the Stars is a complete rewrite of an earlier novella, Against the Fall of Night (1948). Tech news articles related to The City and the Stars I note in passing that Clarke sees no future for intellectual property law in Diaspar.Ĭomment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This |Īnd Technology from The City and the Stars If there was a sufficiently affirmative vote, its matrix would go into the memory of the city so that anyone who wished, at any future date, could possess a reproduction indistinguishable from the original. The resulting verdict, recorded automatically by opinion-sampling devices which no one had ever been able to suborn or deceive - and there had been enough attempts - decided the fate of the masterpiece. In this manner, it was usually only a few days before the entire population had critically examined any noteworthy creation, and also expressed views upon it. It was the custom of the city's artists - and everyone in Diaspar was an artist at some time or another - to display their current production along side of the moving ways, so that the passers-by could admire their work.
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