City by Clifford D. Simak is on sale today at Amazon
US for $1.99
There's a link to this under arcadata's thread, as it's a kindle deal of the day, so it might be nice if you're going to buy to click through that link. That post also includes a link to five Joe Halderman books on sale today, including the Forever War.
This was one of my favorite short-stories turned into a loose novel books I a read as a kid.
Intelligent canines in a far-future city preserve the legends and lore of their absent human masters
Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city—first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion—leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost “websters” who gave them so much but will never return. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called “Man.”
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