City by Clifford D. Simak

[james_davis_nicoll]

City by Clifford D. Simak

Comments

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

My brother named his dog Trotsky: make of that what you will. :)

James, did humans survive on some of the Cobbly worlds they were seeded on, or do we just not know?

(Speaking of Cobbly worlds, I vaguely recall a story involving an investigator looking in on some scientists on Pluto or some such which have made contact with alternate worlds, with unpleasant results. There's some sort of mind-controlling moth singer and a painting which is actually a doorway to one of those worlds. There is a line about one of the scientists being "owned" by something monstrous. Does anyone recall if that is a Simak story, or am I thinking of a work by someone else?)

[monte davis (from livejournal.com)]

Damn, that rings a bell, but all I can come up with is Vance's Moon Moth, which isn't it

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

My impression was that they all died out. The only extant population is in Geneva, which is sealed from the outside world.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Probably didn't do as good a job of wiping out the competition for Dogs as Jenkins hoped, then. Perhaps they ran into mutants.