Fear of heights and being alone

the widowed Nell leads a wretched existence

little-known facts

including a fun-loving regular in a dance hall

Against the Fall of Night (Golden Age Masterworks) Format:Paperback Fear of heights and beingIn the year ten billion A. D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Ageless 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 An early version of one of Clarke's most successful books,