The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke

Alvin is a resident of the technologically masterful city of Diaspar, like all the other citizens of this self sufficient city Alvin has all his living needs catered for. In other ways Alvin is different, he doesn?t have the same morbid fear of the world outside of the city walls and he is also the first genuinely new human to be born in millions of years. Set a billion years in the future, the city of Diaspar is the last human city on Earth. The people of Diaspar live for a thousand years and then at the end of their days they are absorbed back into the city and after a period of many years they are reborn. During a childhood, ...  Read the complete review