Clifford D. Simak City Analysis

In the story “City” by Clifford D. Simak, it takes you through the struggle that the city was going through. Within the first two tales give you a great sense of when this book was published was during the year 1952. So, throughout the stories I could find that three pieces of direct evidence that Simak was trying to tie in the era of the book. The first is on page twenty with it saying, “The, city is an anachronism. It has outlived its usefulness. Hydroponics and helicopter spelled its downfall. In the first instance the city was a tribal place, an area where the tribe banded together for mutual protection. In later years a wall was thrown around it for mutual protection” (Simak 20). I found that what Simak is trying to deliver through this