A GREAT SCIENCE-FICTION CLASSIC Here is an utterly enthralling science-fiction novel that spans 10,000 years of future adventures, human hopes, and super-human achievements. The story of one family, the Websters--and also of the Webster dogs and robots--it is narrated in the form of eight long sequences, each showing a further and more wonderful development. Humanity moves from the culture of the super-city of the near future to the sprawling spaces of a robot-run society, and finally finds its Golden Age on the mighty planet Jupiter--leaving the Earth as the heritage of man's best friends. City weaves a story that encompasses eight tales told about a family named Webster. Through the centuries and millennia the tales tell you about Man, the Dogs, robots and a new enemy that takes over and threatens them all. Truly a classic of science-fiction writing that keeps you wanting to find out what happens.