Fall of night
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The renowned science fiction author's landmark novel of the last human born on a far future world-and his quest for the truth about existence. Living in the ten-billion-year-old city of Diaspar, Alvin is the last child born of humanity, and he is intensely curious about the outside world. But according to the oldest histories kept by the city fathers, there is no outside world-it was destroyed by the Invaders millions of years ago. One day, Alvin...
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Fall of night volume 2
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The authorized sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction classic Against the Fall of Night, set on a dying planet Earth millions of years in the future.
In Against the Fall of Night, a young man named Alvin ventures beyond the domed city of Diaspar to explore a planet Earth left nearly barren by a centuries-old cataclysm. What he discovers is the thriving rural civilization of Lys and an insane non-corporeal being known as the Mad Mind-a danger...