The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 1957 First Printing Signet Books Paperback - Richard Powers 20 Great Sci-Fi Summer Reads But the stakes were greater

But the stakes were greater than she dared dream

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

led by Agamemnon

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1977)

The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 1957 First Printing Signet Books Paperback - Richard Powers 20 Great Sci-Fi Summer Reads But the stakes were greaterCondition: 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