Beyond the Fall of Night

Beyond the Fall of Night  
Author(s) Gregory Benford and Arthur C. Clarke
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Putnam
Publication date July 17, 1990
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 298 pp
ISBN 0399134999
OCLC Number 20354488
Dewey Decimal 823/.914 20
LC Classification PR6005.L36 B45 1990
Preceded by The City and the Stars

Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) is a novel by Gregory Benford and Arthur C. Clarke. The first part of Beyond the Fall of Night is a reprint of Clarke’s famous Against the Fall of Night while the second half is a "sequel" by Gregory Benford which takes place many years later. This book is unrelated to The City and the Stars which is an expanded version of Against the Fall of Night which Clarke wrote himself three years after the publication of Against the Fall of Night.

Critical response

James Nicoll described Beyond as "an atrocity" and "an abomination", saying that it is "not just a bad book, the events in it can not happen given the events in [Against]", and that the only thing it had in common with Against was "some character names".[1]

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