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Oath of Fealty is a modern-day book, set in near-future Los Angeles. Or actually, just outside it in the Todos Santos Independency, a self-contained city in a single building. The notion of an arcology (and the word) are not inventions of the authors, but the novel is a realization of what it would be like to live in that sort of space.
The book title refers to the social structure that evolved within the Independency. Do the people who live in a building like a medieval walled city start to act medieval? Read the novel and judge for yourself.
The first architect to describe the idea of an arcology was probably Paolo Soleri, who created the Arcosanti project. He wrote:
The first science fiction author to describe the idea was Rev. Louis Tucker, who described a cubic city in his 1929 short story of the same name.
Others have since used it - like Gibson with nanotech buildings and Dan Simmons with his Hive arcologies.
Compare to the cube city from The Cubic City (1929) by Louis Tucker, D.D.. Comment/Join this discussion ( 5 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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