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by Arthur C. Clarke (Author), Gregory Benford (Author)
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  • Paperback: 332 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; New edition edition (25 Jun 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857230264
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857230260
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 667,401 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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NEW YORK TIMES
'Arthur C. Clarke is awesomely informed about physics and astronomy, and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations...'

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION
'For many readers Arthur C. Clarke is the very personification of science fiction'

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3.0 out of 5 stars A story of two halves!, 3 Dec 2000
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This book is composed of two relatively short stories by two different authors. The first, 'Against the fall of Night', by Arthur C Clarke is one of those short books you wish would just go on and on and on! Set Millions of years in the future when mankind has withdrawn from the galaxy to only two settlements on Earth and stagnated.Along comes a young man with a thirst for knowledge and an inquisitive nature, qualities almost extinct in this new human race.The story follows his quest for an understanding of the world around him. The story is so beautifully crafted that although it is set eons in the future you feel as if you can touch it. The second part of the book, by Gregory Benford, continues the story following the main character from the first story. Unfortunately I was unable to picture these two main characters as the same individual.I'm sure if Mr. Benford had written his story as a completely original novel I would have appreciated it more. Indeed if it had not been that the two books are parcelled together they appear so disjointed together that I would not have conceived that they were meant as part of the one story. All in all I do not feel gregory Benford did himself justice, although following Arthur C Clarke in the same book is a pretty unforgiving task for any science fiction writer. I intend to read an original Gregory Benford novel to give him a 'fair trial!' If I could mark the two stories seperately it would be five golden stars for Clarke's story and only one for Benford's work. However very much worth picking up for the first.
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