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Beyond the Fall of Night

By Arthur C. Clarke & Gregory Benford
Beyond the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke & Gregory Benford digital book - Fable

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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 to humanity that is safely imprisoned.
 
In Beyond the Fall of Night, author and astrophysicist Gregory Benford has written the authorized sequel to Clarke’s tale—one that takes us centuries even further into the future. Having reunited Diaspar and Lys, Alvin now works to repopulate the Earth with original species resurrected from a library of ancient genetic information. Among these resurrected beings is Cley, a Cro-Magnon and sole survivor of her tribe. Cley joins forces with Alvin and a large, intelligent rodent named Seeker to eliminate the threat from the Mad Mind once and for all—and clear the way for life in the Solar System to thrive.

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“Beyond the Fall of Night consists of two parts, a novella by Arthur C. Clarke called Against the Fall of Night and a continuation of this novella by Gregory Benford. The first I found interesting and unique, the second too abstract and rambling. The original novella was unique and interesting, as it was set billions of years in the future and it was about earth, but so different that it was not recognisable. In this setting, today's time were the Dawn Ages, a very ancient past. This was an interesting perspective. The story itself was ok and just really follows the discovery of different aspects of the world. For instance, the novella describes a machine that operates a lot like a google search, albeit with a waiting period and having the answers printed out on a slip of paper. The continuation by Benford is set a few centuries after the original novella. It focuses heavily on the biological aspect of the world and universe. Toward the end, the story's climax occured, but it was so abstract and "up in the air" that it didn't really feel like it resolved any of the conflict. The conflict itself was very abstract and ex machina was a recurring theme.”

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