Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:08:43 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] City review
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>From the online 'zine GREEN MAN REVIEW:

"Old Earth Books has done us the signal service of reissuing two of
Simak's most memorable works in honor of the centennial of his birth in
1904, of which City is one"

"These stories are absorbing, and the visionary quality is something
that contemporary writers in the field seem to have lost to a large
extent, though not entirely."

When I reread WAY STATION a few year agos, I was struck by how clean
and unadorned Simak's prose was - which is undoubtedly a result of him
being a newspaper man for ages.  The novel runs about 60,000 words or
so.  Is not part of a series - shocking - or as some have describe such:
 "a stand alone novel."

You know there is something wrong with trade publishing when Old Earth
Books is reprinting a Hugo winning novel.  CITY won the International
Fantasy Award when it was published.  Another winner was this Tolkien
fellow.

Full review:  http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_simak_city.html

mjw