Beyond the Fall of Night

{{Short description|1990 novel by Gregory Benford}}

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| image = Image:Beyond the Fall of Night.jpg

| caption = Cover of the first edition

| author = Gregory Benford and Arthur C. Clarke

| cover_artist = Judith Kazdym Leeds

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Science fiction

| publisher = Putnam

| release_date = July 17, 1990

| media_type = Print (Hardcover)

| pages = 298 pp

| isbn = 0-399-13499-9

| dewey= 823/.914 20

| congress= PR6005.L36 B45 1990

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Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gregory Benford. The first part of Beyond the Fall of Night is a reprint of Clarke's Against the Fall of Night while the second half is a "sequel" by Gregory Benford that 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 the Fall of Night 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".[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv/msg/afa9a82d125ec71f?hl=en&dmode=source The Tomorrow People], James Nicoll, July 14, 2000

Expanded version

The 1990 novella "Beyond the Fall of Night" was later expanded into the novel Beyond Infinity, with additional material and a change in the name and sex of the character.[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-446-53059-0 Review: Beyond Infinity], Publishers Weekly]. Retrieved 2017-04-24.

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