Against the Fall of Night Author:Arthur C. Clarke Mankind has reached the heights of civilization. Men live thousands of years in perfect freedom and leisure --- their wants are attended to by ingenious machines --- peace and culture flourish in ways undreamed of in our time. — And yet...mankind is dying. The price of peace has been the loss of the needed human qualities of curiosity and drive... more » --- they have been bred out of the human reace.
So when young Alvin of Diaspar began asking questions, he was looked on as a dangerous freak, a throwback. But Alvin kept asking, kept looking, kept seeking out the truth...
...and what he found offered his people a dreadful choice --- battle and destruction, or a new and richer destiny!« less