My favorite novel is a hard question to pin down, but sometimes my answer would be City by Clifford Simak. It's really a series of short stories that tell of a future Earth populated by intelligent dogs that sit around the campfire trying to make sense of great questions like What is a city? What is a war? What is a man? Where did the robots come from? The stories in the book are the dogs' legends and creation myths told with an immense melancholia. The stories tell of humanity's withdrawal from one another into states of isolation and retreat until we abandon Earth completely. The mood is conveyed with the great subtle skill of a grandmaster science fiction author and City is unforgettable.
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