![]() In introductions to it Clarke has told the anecdote of a psychiatrist and patient who admitted that they had discussed it one day in therapy, without realizing at the time that one had read one novel and one the other. ![]() Against the Fall of Night remained popular enough to stay in print after The City and the Stars had been published. ![]() The major differences are in individual scenes and in the details of his contrasting civilizations of Diaspar and Lys. The new version was intended to showcase what he had learned about writing, and about information processing. Several years later, Clarke revised his novel extensively and renamed it The City and the Stars. ![]() Clarke coped with the news he received in 1986, when doctors in London told him he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a terminal illness that in the States is often called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The City and the Stars was written in 1956 and is written with extraordinary vision and sight into what the future may contain. Campbell, Jr., editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, had rejected it, according to Clarke. Clarke: On Cities and Stars by Paul Gilster on ApI’ve always wondered how Arthur C. ![]() This novel is a complete rewrite of his earlier Against the Fall of Night, Clarke's first novel, which had been published in Startling Stories magazine in 1948 after John W. The City and the Stars is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. ![]()
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