Earth's Last Citadel

Earth's Last Citadel is a science fiction novel written by the American husband and wife team of C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner. It was first published in 1943 in the magazine Argosy[1] and in book form it was published first in 1964.[2]

First book edition (publ. Ace Books). Cover art by Alex Schomburg.

Plot

During World War II, four people (two belonging to the Allies, two to the Axis) find a strange vehicle in the Tunisian desert. It whisks them to the far future where the Earth has been conquered and mankind is nearly extinct.

gollark: You're DEFINITELY not in GTech™ alternate universe 1289571-β-β-β.
gollark: We will convert any of these into currency units at the objectively correct price.
gollark: Fortunately, our systems extend into all hypothetical scenarios and preemptively neutralize the portions of features of devices anywhere capable of damaging them.
gollark: No.
gollark: How quaint.

References
  1. Clute and Grant 1997, p. 551.
  2. Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Sources
  • Clute, John and John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. London: Orbit Books, 1997. ISBN 978-1-85723-368-1.


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