The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night Arthur C. Clarke Corgi 1972

The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night Arthur C. Clarke Corgi 1972

This volume is a collection of two early works by Arthur C. Clarke. Originally published in 1968, 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 into a novel 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 "something more" in a future society that believes it has discovered everything and ceases to advance. The two are not, however, in the same future history.