by Arthur C. Clarke
Recommended by Peter Thiel and Julia Macfarlane
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science Fiction, and Fiction.
Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel....
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science Fiction, and Fiction.
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Julia Macfarlane
“The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke amazing amount of imagination in that book”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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