The novel “City” by Clifford D. Simak was published for the first time in 1952. It won the International Fantasy Award.

At the beginning of the 21st century technology has made leaps forward in building extraordinarily efficient and fast vehicles. The consequence is that human beings have started abandoning cities because they can go and live in the countryside and move very quickly to go to work anywhere.

The progressive death of cities is just one of many great changes that occur in future human society. Space exploration leads to contacts with aliens, which in various ways affect humans. Over the centuries, on Earth the Webster family, the protagonist of many changes, also contributes to the evolution of dogs.