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	Echoes On-Line: Beyond Echoes-Diaspar
		I don't know that Diaspar could ever survive on the air these days with its willful eclecticism and radical, often aggressive mixes of prog-rock, avant-garde jazz, new wave and space music.
		From time to time at Echoes On-Line we'll be launching exclusive web-streams of Diaspar music, sometimes as it was heard some 15-30 years ago, sometimes as it might appear if Diaspar had continued to this day.
		In this Diaspar stream we salute the spirit of Progressive Rock, and Nearfest, the annual North East Art Rock Festival.
	www.echoes.org /beyond-Diaspar.html (230 words)

	John Huntington- The Unity of Childhood's End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He accuses its inhabitants of being "sick" and "insane." We are told that Diaspar represents a "cowardly" "fear" of the unknown.
		It is man's retreat from "reality." The problem with Diaspar is that the activities that went into the utopia's creation, the scientific experiments and the intellectual daring, have been rendered useless by the city's success.
		Diaspar, in depriving man of "that spark of curiosity that was once Man's greatest gift" (§7), represents a paradox that is inherent in the very notion of technological progress: the more successful such progress is, the less need will there be for more of it.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/3/huntington3art.htm (4961 words)

	Characters in Arthur C. Clarke's City and the Stars
		Alystra is generally bound by the limitations of all people in her culture, but she shows some extra initiative and determination in trying to maintain a relationship with Alvin, despite his frequent disinterest.
		Alvin's tutor, and an elder statesman in Diaspar.
		They are essentially the security/police in Diaspar, although crime as we usually think of it is essentially nonexistent.
	www.adherents.com /lit/bk_Clarke_CityStars_char.html (1383 words)

	Diaspar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Jeserac’s saga at the end of the novel, Yarlan Zey explains that the creators of Diaspar "redesigned the human spirit, robbing it of ambition and the fiercer passions, so that it would be contented with the world it now possessed," so that it would be contented as a machine (244).
		Moreover, he reveals that not only is it better to live in possession of the human spirit, it is in fact, the only way to live.
		Throughout the novel, he shows Diaspar to be only an image — the buildings are not material, they are atomized.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/english/engl289a/diaspar.html (384 words)

	The City and the Stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is different from everybody else in Diaspar, not only because he does not have any past lives to remember, but because instead of fearing the outside, he feels compelled to leave.
		In contrast to walled, technological Diaspar, Lys is a vast green oasis shielded by mountains from the worldwide desert.
		In Against the Fall of Night Alvin is the only child to be born in Diaspar for seven thousand years, and the people of Diaspar are described as immortal, but their lives appear to be simply extremely extended - the point is not very clear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars (2173 words)

	La ciudad y las estrellas Arthur C. Clarke - Interplanetaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Diaspar estaba llena de ojos y oídos, y de otros sentidos más sensibles, que la mantenían informada de todo cuanto pasaba dentro de sus límites.
		Diaspar está compuesta siempre por las mismas personas, aunque formen distintos grupos a medida que entran y salen de la Casa de Creación.
		Diaspar ha logrado sobrevivir y perdurar a través de los siglos, como un enorme barco cargado con todo lo que queda de la raza humana.
	www.interplanetaria.com /contenido.php?id=ciudadEstrellas (1289 words)

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		Diaspar is the last living city on Earth.
		Timid and untried, the only humans in existence have stagnated there for eons in terror of their own history - the greatness of which remains only in the beauty of the ancient city and in the memories of the unfathomable machines that care for it.
		But for Alvin of Loronei, the first child born in Diaspar in 4,000 years, there are no barriers.
	www.secweb.org /index.aspx?action=viewBook&id=390 (338 words)

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		He is different from everybody else in Diaspar, not only because he doesn't have any past lives to remember, but because instead of fearing the outside of Diaspar he feels compelled to leave it.
		Once out of Diaspar, Alvin continues his quest until he finds out the truth of why the people of Diaspar are so frightened of the external universe and why Lys is so scared of space travel and mechanical things.
		Instead, the people of Diaspar are the descendants of those humans who deliberately turned away from the universe in rejection of history's greatest scientific project: the creation of a disembodied intellect.
	www.nobeltrader.com /city-stars.htm (719 words)

	Jim Mann's Reviews and Comments: The City and the Stars
		The great city of Diaspar, as far as its inhabitants know, is the last city on earth and has existed in its present form for a billion years, its existence maintained and renewed by the city’s central computer mind and its memory banks.
		Many once had a galactic empire, back at the dawn of time (for, from a billion years in the future, our entire history is only a very, very short span), but had been driven back to earth, as the old stories go, by the Invaders.
		Everyone else in Diaspar ignores anything outside of the city, and is in fact afraid of what is outside.
	dpsinfo.com /jblog/2006/03/city-and-stars.html (1118 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Lion of Comarre / Against the Fall of Night at Epinions.com
		Set many millennia into earths future, our planets oceans are now mere dry salt lakes, and mankind cowers from exploration of the stars, living in fear of a species which chased Man across the stars, until he took refuge on his own world and swore to stay only there.
		Alvin is the only child born to the near-immortal inhabitants of Diaspar in generations, and sees himself as something of an explorer.
		Diaspar is so huge that large portions of it lie completely unused, and its citizens are not even inquisitive enough to explore them.
	www.epinions.com /content_42701917828 (1093 words)

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		Diaspar is providing the 14 foot by 8 foot facility for actual construction of the lunar model.
		Diaspar has, in stock, the electronic tanks that can be modified and one CCD TV chip.
		Diaspar will make available the Dmodem graphical communications package and modify it for control of the machines-lets.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-3/OldFiles/data/20_newsgroup/sci.space/60888 (1110 words)

	worlorn religion - church of the grey lord 020726
		The domed free city of Diaspar was created in seven days by Thiebaud, a high priest of the Grey Lord.
		It is said Diaspar is a shadow of a prime city, called by the god's name: Troy.
		Diaspar is occasionally ruled through a Nexus-8 Replicant of the city's founder Thiebaud.
	www.sonic.net /~ricercar/worlorn/n_p_greylord.html (462 words)

	eReader.com: Excerpt from The City and the Stars and The Sands of Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alvin was back in Diaspar, in his own familiar room, floating a foot or two above the floor as the gravity field protected him from the bruising contact of brute matter.
		The pretense must soon be ended; in a few days he would be a full citizen of Diaspar, and nothing could be withheld from him that he wished to know.
		Far back in time, perhaps before Diaspar was founded, something had happened that had not only destroyed Man's curiosity and ambition, but had sent him homeward from the stars to cower for shelter in the tiny closed world of Earth's last city.
	ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/4264?book=The_City_and_the_Stars_a... (1940 words)

	Diaspar Software Services - Articles/Presentations
		When we're not programming at Diaspar Software Services, we are busy writing articles, speaking and generally trying to advance the craft of programming.
		If you are interested in knowing how much XP it is possible to do with a "team of one", even within a large organization like IBM e-commerce, you may find this presentation useful.
		All content copyright 2001-2004 Diaspar Software Services Inc., all rights reserved, except where otherwise noted.
	www.diasparsoftware.com /portfolio.html (328 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke's City and the Stars
		The novel's main character is Alvin, a denizen of the city of Diaspar.
		The people of Diaspar live for one thousand years, before their essence is absorbed back into the city's Memory Banks.
		Lys and Diaspar are obviously very different, yet the fascinating exploration of their differences is only one portion of what this book has to offer.
	www.adherents.com /lit/bk_Clarke_CityStars.html (826 words)

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		Pa ipak, znao je da je to Diaspar, premda nije zastao da porazmisli kako to zna.
		Diaspar koji je stajao otvoren prema svetu i Vaseljeni.
		Miljama iznad grada, opervažući svod svojim bešumnim dezenom, brodovi koji su povezivali Diaspar sa spoljnim svetom dolazili su i odlazili svojim poslom.
	www.freewebtown.com /polarissf/html/gradizve/p26.html (1752 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The City and the Stars (Millennium SF Masterworks S): Books: Arthur C. Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the city of Diaspar, we have a totally enclosed and static society, where people live for a thousand years, then store their memories for some later computer controlled reincarnation, where anything outside the city is not only totally ignored, its very existence is practically denied.
		Against this background we find Alvin, the first truly new citizen in Diaspar in seven thousand years, born without any memories of prior existences, to whom, without any preset thought biases, all things are open to question.
		When he starts to question the origin of Diaspar and ask what exists outside the city, he is met with rebuff and ostracism.
	www.amazon.co.uk /City-Stars-Millennium-SF-Masterworks/dp/1857987632 (1947 words)

	Spirited Simulacrum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As Callitrax explains their true history to the people of Diaspar, he informs them that "the tales we have believed since our records beganare false — false in every detail" (234).
		Clarke predicts the final outcome of the transition to post-modernity in his representation of Diaspar.
		Jeserac’s newfound ability to leave Diaspar at the end of the novel illustrates Clarke’s belief that the human spirit is innate and cannot be programmed out of existence.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/english/engl289a/simulac.html (275 words)

	eReader.com: Excerpt from The City and the Stars and The Sands of Mars
		Alvin was back in Diaspar, in his own familiar room, floating a foot or two above the floor as the gravity field protected him from the bruising contact of brute matter.
		The pretense must soon be ended; in a few days he would be a full citizen of Diaspar, and nothing could be withheld from him that he wished to know.
		Far back in time, perhaps before Diaspar was founded, something had happened that had not only destroyed Man's curiosity and ambition, but had sent him homeward from the stars to cower for shelter in the tiny closed world of Earth's last city.
	www.ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/4264?book=The_City_and_the_Stars_and_The_Sands_of_Mars (1940 words)

	Space Fantasy/Cyberpunk Sorta Thing . . . - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		The game would simply be about defending Diaspar against outer - and inner - threats, and, in the long run, reclaim the stars for humanity.
		Well, Diaspar is from the Arthur C. Clarke novels The City and the Stars and Against the Fall of Night.
		They are set in a remote era where from their standpoint, the invention of fire and the first nuclear explosion are equally remote.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?p=729783 (584 words)

	The City And The Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		You are unique in the fact that you have never been born before and that you are not afraid of the outside.
		You are Alvin in the city of Diaspar on the plant Earth.
		There are no dangers in Diaspar and human beings have been engineered to live for 1,000 years.
	library.thinkquest.org /4155/TylerW.html (253 words)

	The City and the Stars at AllExperts
		Nobody has come in or left the domed city for as long as anybody can remember, and everybody in Diaspar has an instinctive fear of everything outside of Diaspar.
		In Diaspar, the entire city is run by a central computer.
		In contrast to walled, technological Diaspar, the city of Lys is a vast green oasis shielded by mountains from the worldwide desert.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/the_city_and_the_stars.htm (716 words)

	Diaspar Memory by Arthur C. Clarke from The City and the Stars
		Diaspar Memory by Arthur C. Clarke from The City and the Stars
		It was the custom of the city's artists - and everyone in Diaspar was an artist at some time or another - to display their current production along side of the moving ways, so that the passers-by could admire their work.
		I note in passing that Clarke sees no future for intellectual property law in Diaspar...
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=878 (320 words)

	Delos 22: A.C. Clarke: bibliografia
		Nella Terra dell'anno 10000, l'intera umanità vive nella fantasmagorica città di Diaspar.
		Diaspar, la città intelligente, pensa a tutto, risolve ogni problema.
		Così Alvin dedicherà la sua giovane vita per risolvere l'enigma di Diaspar, e per scoprire l'unica via di fuga dalla città e dai rigidi schemi fissati per i suoi cittadini.
	www.delos.fantascienza.com /delos22/clarkebib.html (1605 words)

	Froup Liff - Diaspar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The computer in your office that cost too much to throw out but runs too poorly to be used as anything other than a doorstop.
		For example "Hey Mike, the door keeps blowing shut, hand me that diaspar would you?"
		An ethnic minority in a foreign country, but not able to form a diaspora.
	www.zootle.net /afda/cgi/froup-liff.cgi?Diaspar (218 words)

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