The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of NightBoth stories 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. It does not, however, exist in the same 'future history' as Against the Fall of Night. |
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