Editing Against the Fall of Night (section)

==Reception==
[[Groff Conklin]] described the original edition of the novel as "a light, simple, fast-moving and often richly imaginative fantasy."<ref>"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', November 1953, p.80</ref> [[Anthony Boucher|Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas|McComas]] praised "this brief but intense book" as "beautiful", describing it as "poetry and awe and wonder" and characterizing Clarke as "the visionary poet of a future so far distant that its most prosaic science passes our technical understanding."<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', August 1953, p. 96.</ref> [[P. Schuyler Miller]] reported that because the narrative "is so well told, the story becomes convincing, and its magic spreads over the reader as well as the people of the plot."<ref>"The Reference Library", ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'', November 1953, pp.150</ref> In 1969, [[Alexei Panshin]] wrote that "the story is largely undeveloped -- too much is asserted, too little is examined."<ref>"Books", ''[[F&SF]]'', November 1969, p. 49</ref>