The City and the Stars

This is Arthur C Clarke's rewrite of his first sci fi novel, Against the Fall of Night. I have reviewed the first version separately.

The two versions are similar in major aspects, but differ in many details. The second version seems more "realistic", but some of its characters seem less well developed in some ways. I liked the first version a bit better.

My review of the first version gives a summary that should also suffice for the second, so I will not say more here on that.

I'd probably recommend reading both versions and have readers decide for themselves which is better.