A Heritage of Stars

Another decent book by Simak. Like many of his others, the tale is pastoral, with almost all the action taking place in the overgrown wilderness of a thousand years in the future after the great Collapse. It is sort of a dystopian novel where humans have destroyed all the technology and reverted to mostly nomadic and tribal living. The one holdout is the University of Minnesota, now more of a monastery, but still a place where learning is revered. Even though this book was written in the seventies, it feels older, more like the golden age of science fiction. There's a lot of exposition and philosophy rather than action, and the plot gets a little clunky at times, but I still enjoyed it.

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