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DrNefario
Posted 2015-03-02 7:32 AM (#9796 - in reply to #9162)
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Location: UK		I finished City yesterday. It was OK, but wouldn't really have been my pick as a Masterwork. I think Simak's stories hold up for the same reason that Bradbury's do: because of their emotional depth, which still resonates even when the science is dated, but City has too many of the flaws of a fix-up to really work for me. I've never really been able to love collections like I do novels. The stories are all related, here, even if they occasionally look like they might not be, but it still has the feel of a collection, to me, and on top of that I just didn't really buy some of the ideas.

Childhood's End is next up for me, one of the headliners, and the highest-placed book on the Locus Best SF list that I haven't read. It seems like this is real gap in my SF education, but I've always struggled a bit with Clarke. I have mixed feelings about this one ahead of time. I'm not sure when I'll get round to starting it.

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