
Beyond the Fall of Night
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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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GREGORY BENFORD is professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Irvine. Benford is a winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, and the Nebula Award for his classic novel Timescape. LARRY NIVEN is the author of the Ringworld series and many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part 1
- Prologue
- 1. The Prison of Diaspar
- 2. Start of the Search
- 3. The Tomb of Yarlan Zey
- 4. The Way Beneath
- 5. The Land of Lys
- 6. The Last Niagara
- 7. The Crater Dweller
- 8. The Story of Shalmirane
- 9. Master of the Robot
- 10. Duplication
- 11. The Council
- 12. The Ship
- 13. The Crisis
- 14. Out of the System
- 15. Vanamonde
- 16. Two Meetings
- 17. The Black Sun
- 18. Renaissance
- Part 2
- 19. The Return of Evil
- 20. The Ur-Humans
- 21. The Library of Life
- 22. A Larger Topology
- 23. The Banquet at the End of Time
- 24. Flight
- 25. Biologic
- 26. Pinwheel
- 27. Jonah
- 28. Leviathan
- 29. Editing the Sun
- 30. The Captain of Clouds
- 31. Skysharks
- 32. The Living Bridge
- 33. The Living Continents
- 34. Homo Technologicus
- 35. The Prison of Time
- 36. The Heresy of Humanism
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