/lit/ - Literature

I just read by The City And The Stars by Arthur C Clarke. It's the first book I've read by the author.

I was most impressed by his prose, which is eloquent; plain but not terse, and vivid in places, particularly in describing ecology and exotic flora/fauna. I have read people who say his prose is leaden and stiff but I don't see that in this book.

He also manages to compress myriad themes and things to think about into just 250 pages.