Beyond the Fall of Night

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.

Beyond the Fall of Night

Cover of the first edition
Author	Gregory Benford and Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist	Judith Kazdym Leeds
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	July 17, 1990
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	298 pp
ISBN	0-399-13499-9
OCLC	20354488
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 20
LC Class	PR6005.L36 B45 1990
Preceded by	The City and the Stars

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".^[1]

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.^[2]