As the pair reach the beach, the guy frolics in the surf and the girl checks out the contents of his guitar case: a suit and tie, toothpaste, mouthwash, a roll of toilet paper and a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars.
In Against the Fall of Night it is eventually revealed that the Great Ones were the people of the Empire who had left the Galaxy.
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In this passage, Clarke describes the prime spiral, a method of graphing the prime numbers that reveals a pattern, seven years before it was discovered by Stanislaw Ulam.
New York City | Mexico City | Kansas City, Missouri | Kansas City | Salt Lake City | Quebec City | Oklahoma City | City of London | city | Vatican City | New York City Subway | Panama City | Kansas City Chiefs | Dancing with the Stars | Kansas City Royals | Sex and the City | Mayor of New York City | Atlantic City, New Jersey | Utrecht (city) | Cork (city) | New York City Ballet | Manchester City F.C. | Jersey City, New Jersey | New York City Opera | Guatemala City | Atlantic City | Quezon City | City College of New York | Ho Chi Minh City | Groningen (city) |