About the Book: Against The Fall Of Night
In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and
unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world.
But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar
- finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even
though he knows the Invaders, who devastated the world, may still be out
there... Later rewritten, expanded and republished as The City and the Stars,
this early novella by one of the greats of science fiction remains a