Against the Fall of Night
 Dust-jacket of the first edition |
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| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Cover artist | Frank Kelly Freas |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
| Publication date | 1953 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 223 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Followed by | Beyond the Fall of Night |
Against the Fall of Night is an early (1953) work by Arthur C. Clarke.
Originally appearing in the November, 1948 issue of the magazine Startling
Stories, it was first published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press. It was later
expanded and revised as The City and the Stars. The original also appeared
in a more recent edition along with another unconnected early work:
Comparison with The City and the Stars
Notes
- The work opens with a fragment, apparently originally written in isolation in 1935, in which all Diaspar has fallen silent and Alvin is called out by his father to see something in the sky. Alvin's father says he has only ever seen one other. It is a cloud. This scene dramatises the "desert at the end of time" setting, but is not quite consistent with the detail that we are later told that Rorden had never seen the stars until Alvin shows him the outside.
References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 302.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 101. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
| Novels by Arthur C. Clarke |
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Prelude to Space ♦ The Sands of Mars ♦ Islands in the Sky ♦ Against the Fall of Night ♦ Childhood's End ♦ Earthlight ♦ The City and the Stars ♦ The Deep Range ♦ A Fall of Moondust ♦ Dolphin Island ♦ Glide Path ♦ 2001: A Space Odyssey ♦ Rendezvous with Rama ♦ Imperial Earth ♦ The Fountains of Paradise ♦ 2010: Odyssey Two ♦ Songs of Distant Earth ♦ 2061: Odyssey Three ♦ Cradle ♦ Rama II ♦ The Ghost from the Grand Banks ♦ The Garden of Rama ♦ Rama Revealed ♦ The Hammer of God ♦ Richter 10 ♦ 3001: The Final Odyssey ♦ The Trigger ♦ The Light of Other Days ♦ Time's Eye ♦ Sunstorm ♦ The Last Theorem |
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