![]() ![]() Desertion is also an early example of mind uploading, a very popular theme in science fiction today. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man. The Shipshape Miracle: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Not because he was evil, or anything, or a coward. One of them, a brain surgeon in the third or fourth story, sets both humanity and the Martians back by thousands of years. She has curated exhibitions on a wide variety of artists and media. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. It’s pretty impressive, the way that Simak was able to generate this amazing, successful, and important family without making them perfect. As a museum curator for thirty years, Ellen Simak specialized in American art. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never return. Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. ![]() This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. ![]()
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