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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
An expedition is on a visit a planet they are considering for colonization. The planet’s peaceful and simple inhabitants seem to know little of their great predecessors who have built a technologically advanced city. First published in Astounding, June 1937.
Original title: Forgetfulness
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Species Evolution
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Anthropology/sociology
This work is a subwork of the following works : Cities of Wonder (1966) [Anthology] Authors: E. M. Forster
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
, James Blish
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Damon Knight
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, J. G. Ballard
, Don A. Stuart
, John W. Campbell
, Robert Abernathy
, Stephen Vincent Benét
World Treasury of Science Fiction, the (1989) [Anthology] Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Kurt Vonnegut
, Alfred Bester
, Isaac Asimov
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, John Updike
, Stanislaw Lem
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Frederik Pohl
, Samuel R. Delany
, Thomas M. Disch
, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
, Anthony Burgess
, Keith Roberts
, Larry Niven
, John Varley
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Damon Knight
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Robert Sheckley
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Arkady Strugatsky
, Boris Strugatsky
, Boris Vian
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Lewis Padgett
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Joanna Russ
, John W. Campbell
, Steve Allen
, Josef Nesvadba
, Karl-Michael Armer
, Gérard Klein
, Manuel van Loggem
, Kirill Bulychev
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
, Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
, Kono Tensei
, John Berryman
, Rene Rebetez-Cortes
, Annemarie van Ewyck
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