a literary guild award. I tried looking it up but not knowing the author and title and year of the book is proving a task. Harry54 

 

Your book sounds like City by Clifford Simak. I might be wrong though;  I read the book a number of yeqars ago, and my memory of it is a bit hazy.

 

Allen

                  Years ago i read a book, but cant recall the author or title of the book. The plot of the book was as follows: It was a planet much like earth or earth itself in the future. Man has been reduced to a few major citys and some small outposts. The animals of this planet have there own kingdoms, wolves, pythons, birds, and dogs etc. Mankind has been reduce to medival life style, swords, horses, and carts.There is one man that has learned to talk with the animals in there own languge. He also has a parrot that is real old and is his best friend and mentor. There is a legend in this world that says one day a leader will come to the dog's kingdom and dog will take over the world for dogs. A great battle insues where man,wolfs and birds fight a great battle with the dogs who found there leader in a great black dog. i sincerely hope you or one of your readers might have read this book and can remeber the name. It is one of the few books i have come across where i read it until it fell part.

I appreciate your help most sincerely