City - Clifford D. Simak

City - Clifford D. Simak: The World has Gone to the Dogs (688 words)
by shroud - written on 26.06.08 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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In the 1940's pulp sci fi was flourishing. Every week would bring out a new edition of some sci fi story magazine or another which would be avidly gobbled up by eager fans. Many of the famous tales we see grace our big screens date from these humble beginnings, and many a grandmaster of science fiction began by collecting his rejection and acceptance notices from these newsstand meccas of the imagination. Indeed, it was in one such now legendary magazine, Astounding Science Fiction, that the City stories by Clifford Simak were initially found. Printed as stand alones in a series during the 1940's, it was not until 1952 that they were gathered up and published as a ...