[fantasyfan]

This should throw up some interesting results considering the wide spectrum offered.

I’ll begin with City by Clifford D. Simak which won the International Fantasy Award In 1952. It is this version I am nominating. Simak twenty years later added a short coda to the eight stories in the award-winning book. Personally, I feel the coda adds nothing to the marvellous originality of the basic book but it really wouldn’t matter which you read.

Amazon Review
“On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself.

“But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world.

“As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?”