Editing Against the Fall of Night (section)

{{Short description|1948 novel by Arthur C. Clarke}}
{{Long plot|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = Against the Fall of Night
| title_orig    =
| translator    =
| image         = Against the fall of night.jpg
| caption = Dust-jacket of the first edition
| author        = [[Arthur C. Clarke]]
| illustrator   =
| cover_artist  = [[Frank Kelly Freas]]
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        =
| genre         = [[Science fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Gnome Press]]
| release_date  = 1953
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]])
| pages         = 223
| preceded_by   =
| followed_by   = [[The City and the Stars]]
}}

'''''Against the Fall of Night''''' is a [[science fiction]] novel by British writer [[Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur&nbsp;C. Clarke]]. Originally appearing as a novella in the November 1948 issue of the magazine ''[[Startling Stories]]'', it was revised and expanded in 1951 and published in book form in 1953 by [[Gnome Press]]. It was later expanded and revised again and published in 1956 as ''[[The City and the Stars]]''. A later edition includes another of Clarke's early works and is titled ''[[The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night]]''. In 1990, with Clarke's approval, [[Gregory Benford]] wrote a sequel titled ''[[Beyond the Fall of Night]]'', which continues the story arc of the 1953 novel. It is generally printed with the original novel as a single volume.

The title is from the poem "Smooth Between Sea and Land" by [[A. E. Housman]], published in ''[[Wikilivres:More Poems|More Poems]]''. Clarke explains: "I was also to discover the lines of A. E. Housman that not only described the locale perfectly, but also gave me the title of my first novel: 'Here on the level sand, between the sea and land, what shall I build or write against the fall of night?{{'"}}.{{Cn|date=April 2022}}