Name: Against the Fall of Night
ISBN: 9781857230260

Gregory Benford

Arthur Charles Clarke

Arthur C.Clarke's early novel Against the Fall of the Night, set far in the future, and a sequel by Gregory Benford. Alvin, the only child for many centuries born in what is believed to be the only city left on Earth, leads a renaissance. Man is reclaiming the Earth, but evil has also returned.

Against the Fall of Night

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated the world, may still be out there... Later rewritten, expanded and republished as The City and the Stars, this early novella by one of the greats of science fiction remains a powerful and evocative depiction of the future of humanity...

JoYo

A young boy leaves the safety of his secluded desert city in an effort to save mankind despite warnings that invaders will return from outer space.

Against the Fall of Night

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