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Against the Fall of Night

✍ Scribed by Clarke, Arthur C

Book ID
107602802
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
75 KB
Series
Against the Fall of Night 1
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780795324918

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✦ Synopsis

Living in the 10-billion-year-old city of Diaspar, Alvin is the last child born of humanity. He is intensely curious about the outside world. According to the oldest histories kept by the city fathers, however, there is no outside world--it was destroyed by the Invaders millions of years ago.

One day, Alvin finds a rock with an inscription seemingly meant for him: "There is a better way. Give my greetings to the Keeper of the Records. Alaine of Lyndar." This cryptic message takes Alvin on a quest to discover humanity's true past--and its future.

Originally published in the November 1948 issue of Startling Stories, Against the Fall of Night is a rich and intensely poetic vision of a distant future that's sure to delight fans of Clarke and science fiction as a genre.

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