A video essay on the novels of Arthur C. Clarke. Subscribe to the channel for more video essays.
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In 1956, Clarke finished his masterpiece, The City and the Stars. It was a rewrite of his first novel. He had been working on it for years.
The book begins in Diasper, a city where people live forever, by being reborn with memories of their past lives intact from a city-wide “Memory Bank”. No one ever leaves and nothing ever changes.
The novel is about how we can trap ourselves into cycles of repetition, doing what we have always done, feeding our old habits, and losing our curiosity for the world. We are shaped by our memories, but those memories have a way of taking over our future. We travel down the same roads, over the same bridges, to get to the same places we have always been to.
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Music from Twin Musicom, Nicolas Gasparini.
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