At any time, only a small number of these people are actually living in Diaspar the rest are retained in the computer's memory banks.Īll the currently existent people of Diaspar have had past "lives" within Diaspar except one person-Alvin, the main character of this story. The computer creates bodies for the people of Diaspar to live in and stores their minds in its memory at the end of their lives. Not only is the city repaired by machines, but the people themselves are created by the machines as well. In Diaspar, the entire city is run by the Central Computer. The story behind this fear of venturing outside the city tells of a race of ruthless invaders which beat humanity back from the stars to Earth, and then made a deal that humanity could live-if they never left the planet. Nobody has come in or left the city for as long as anybody can remember, and everybody in Diaspar has an instinctive insular conservatism. The city of Diaspar is completely enclosed. As far as the people of Diaspar know, theirs is the only city left on the planet. By this time, the Earth is so old that the oceans have gone and humanity has all but left.
The City and the Stars takes place one billion years in the future, in the city of Diaspar.
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