The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night | |
Author: | Arthur C. Clarke |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Science fiction novel |
Publisher: | Harcourt |
Release Date: | 1968 |
Media Type: | Print (hardcover) |
Pages: | x, 214 pp |
The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night are early stories by Arthur C. Clarke collected together for publication in 1968 by Harcourt Brace and by Gollancz in London in 1970,[1] it has been reprinted several times. Both concern Earth in the far future, with a utopian but static human society.
Against the Fall of Night was later expanded and revised as The City and the Stars, one of Clarke's best-known works.
The Lion of Comarre has a similar theme: it is about a dissatisfied young man in search of "something more" in a future society that believes it has discovered everything and ceases to advance.[1] It does not, however, exist in the same 'future history' as Against the Fall of Night.
. Donald H. Tuck . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy . Chicago . . 1974. 0-911682-20-1 . 102.