Dark Is the Sun

by Philip José Farmer

Book Overview

An epic adventure by the author of the award-winning Riverworld series. Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345289501
• ISBN13: 9780345289506
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Cracking Good Read....

I first got hold of this book back in 1982 (or thereabouts), and I loved it straight off the bat. It knocked Ringworld off the top of my All Time Favourite Books list. Great extrapolations, great characters (characters you really get to care about, even though some of them are pretty, er, "out there"), and some great solid adventures. I was at art school in Glasgow at the time, and found Dark Is The Sun such a great source of well defined, richly described people (and non-people), I picked it as a college project to illustrate the cover of the book and depict the main characters. Great fun. If you read and rate good SF and you haven't read this novel, buy it NOW!PS: Never, EVER lend your books. I had a hardback first edition, sigh...

One of the best "Far Future Earth" Sci Fi Novels

This book stands tall alongside Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" Novels, Gene Wolfe's Books of the New Sun and "Hothouse" by Brian Aldiss as one of the best far future Earth novels I have read.Farmer's fecund imagination is what makes this book so great - he brings the future earth alive through the creation of an amazing bestiary and a fascinating storyline. This is one of the few books I re-read on a regular basis. Highly recommended.

Farmer does it again!

Farmer is the best science fiction author of all time and this book is a truly wonderful read!Definitely a book to read more than once, it is rich with adventure, excitement, and deep thought provoking philosophy. Imaging living in a far away future time when the earth is dying as the sun burns out. Society has become primitive again. There are great ideas in this book which is what one expects from Farmer, who has the most brilliant and original imagination ever.If you have ever read "to your scattered bodies go" or "maker of universes" then you will know what I am rambling on about.

Read this book NOW!

My wife thinks sci-fi is something that teenage boys bury their noses in to escape the fact that they are unattractive to girls. She studied English Literature in college and turned up her nose at the genre. I told her that this book would change her mind. And it did. If you have never read this book, I envy you the experience of reading it for the first time.

One of my all time favourites

Loved this book. Have actually re-read it at least a dozen times. Can recommend it to anyone with a love of sci fi (even better than the riverworld series).