Talk:City (novel)

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Plot Summary Inacurracy?
I seem to recall that Joe hit the anthill with a purpose only he could see at the time, not because of was tired of them. That single event acceleration the industrialization of the ants, and the monument repeated all over their building at the end is the celebration of that very moment.

But hey, I read that book as a kid and in French, so maybe something was lost.66.68.113.5 (talk) 15:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I just read the novel and double-checked the scene of Joe hitting the anthill. Simak never mentions a purpose that only Joe could see. Joe just kicks it because he's amoral and doesn't care about the ants. On another note, I have a question I hope someone can help me with. Did the humans that Peter was the "father" of really die off in the cobbly world Jenkins took them to? We never really find out what happened to them, and even though the novel mentions that the humans in Geneva were the last, I like to think that some other humans thrived in some cobbly world away from the dogs/robots/ants/mutants/etc. Vandolson (talk) 15:04, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree; plot summary needs help
Much is left out as well as much being added that is questionable.

It was not necessarily a kaleidoscope trick, and it was based upon the Juwain Philosophy, which isn't mentioned at all in the summary. The Mutants may have been tricky, but they certainly weren't tricksters. When something broke down, one would suddenly show up and fix it. They were helpful to mankind, sort of like race monitors. The kaleidoscope helped mankind to get what they wanted, for otherwise they would not have gone to Jupiter.

The present summary is slanted.--Neptunerover (talk) 23:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I added this to the category for 1950s science fiction novels. Transcendentalist01 (talk) 19:26, 2 March 2014 (UTC)