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Against the Fall of Night

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By (author): Arthur C. Clarke Sir 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...

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Product Details
  • Weight: 140g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 02 May 2019
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781473222342

About Arthur C. ClarkeSir Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College London. One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers he also won the KALINGA PRIZE the AVIATION SPACE-WRITERS PRIZEand the WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE WRITING PRIZE. He also shared an OSCAR nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY which was based on his story 'The Sentinel'. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008. To discover more about how the legacy of Sir Arthur is being honoured today please visit http://www.clarkefoundation.org

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