The Years of the City

First edition (publ. Timescape Books)
Cover art by Howard Koslow

The Years of the City is a novel by Frederik Pohl published in 1984.

Plot summary[]

The Years of the City is a novel in which a utopia is built from New York in five linked stories.^[1]

Reception[]

Dave Langford reviewed The Years of the City for White Dwarf #64, and stated that "There are corny elements (like the traditional whores and crooks with hearts of gold in story 1) and things I can't believe; but overall it's impressive, with enough 'realistic' bitterness to make us cynics swallow the sugary core of optimism."^[1]

Reviews[]

Review by Dan Chow (1984) in Locus, #281 June 1984
Review by Patricia Hernlund (1985) in Fantasy Review, January 1985
Review by Robert Coulson (1985) in Amazing Stories, March 1985
Review by Algis Budrys (1985) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1985
Review by Tom Easton (1985) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1985
Review by Kenny Mathieson (1985) in Foundation, #35 Winter 1985/1986, (1986)

References[]

^ ^a ^b Langford, Dave (April 1985). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 64. Games Workshop. p. 11.

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[WD64-1] Langford, Dave (April 1985). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 64. Games Workshop. p. 11.

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v t Works by Frederik Pohl
Undersea Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	Undersea Quest (1954) Undersea Fleet (1956) Undersea City (1958)
Heechee Saga	Gateway (1977) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) The Annals of the Heechee (1987) The Gateway Trip (1990) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)
Eschaton trilogy	The Other End of Time (1996) The Siege of Eternity (1997) The Far Shore of Time (1999)
Mars series	Man Plus (1976) Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T. Thomas)
Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)	Farthest Star (1975) Wall Around a Star (1983)
The Starchild Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	The Reefs of Space (1964) Starchild (1965) Rogue Star (1969)
Space Merchants series	The Space Merchants (1953) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) The Merchants' War (1984) Venus, Inc. (1985 Omnibus) (this is a two-in-one volume containing The Space Merchants and The Merchants' War)
Other	Search the Sky (1954) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) (1955) (with Lester del Rey) Slave Ship (1956) (1958) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Wolfbane (1959) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Drunkard's Walk (1960) A Plague of Pythons (1964) The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) Day Million (1970) Jem (1979) The Cool War (1981) (1981) Starburst (1982) The Years of the City (1984) Black Star Rising (1985) The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986) (1986) Chernobyl (1987) (1988) (with Jack Williamson) Narabedla Ltd. (1988) Homegoing (1989) The World at the End of Time (1990) (1990) Stopping at Slowyear (1991) (1991) (with Jack Williamson) (1992) (1994) (1998) The Last Theorem (2008) (with Arthur C. Clarke) (2011)