Against the Fall of Night
$18.52
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2019
Summary
In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Ageless 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 no…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473222342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473222346 |
| Author: | Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 129g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Golden Age Masterworks |
About The Author
Sir 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 PRIZE,and 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.
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