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The City of the Sun

64.3% complete
1978
2021
1 time
18 chapters
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2570
 Daedalus Mission*
#4 of 6
Daedalus Mission*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of books by Brian M Stableford originally published by Daw Books.

1) The Florians
2) Critical Threshold
3) Wildeblood's Empire
4) The City of the Sun
5) Balance of Power
6) The Paradox of the Sets
Copyright ©, 1978, by Brian M. Stableford
No dedication.
Nathan was drumming his fingers on the tabletop, just to keep himself active.
May contain spoilers
... "And we should all do our level best."
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Added: 02-Nov-2019
Last Updated: 23-Aug-2022

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 02-May-1978
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
02-May-1978
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.50
Pages*:
189
Catalog ID:
UW1377
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   2 Apr 2021 - 10 Apr 2021
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1825
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-879-97377-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-879-97377-3
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Don Maitz  - Cover Artist
THE
DAEDELUS MISSION:4


One of the classical Utopias of philosophy is the City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella, which outlined an ideal community based upon a marvellous Arcadian city encompassing seven levels of advanced humanity.

Utopian groups had emigrated into space to found their ideal communities... and it was on such a colony world, called appropriately Arcadia, that the recontact starship Daedelus made its fourth planetfall.  And there, in all its perfect splendor, stood the fulfillment of Campanella's dream, the real seven-circled City of the Sun.

But the city was too literal, the inhabitants too perfect, the world too Arcadian - and very quickly the Daedelus's scientists realized that in this Utopia the idealists had unleashed a phenomenon that could undermine all human culture on all human worlds.

A DAW ORIGINAL
- NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK -
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Notes and Comments:
First Printing, May 1978
First printing based on the number line

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Author(s)

Brian M Stableford  
Birth: 25 Jul 1948 Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK

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