title: Book of Lasts: The Stories Behind the Endings That Changed the World
author:  Ian Harrison 
description: Ian Harrison has researched and written a number of books on subjects ranging from ancient battlefields to modern airports, including three historical books written in conjunction with The Times newspaper. He worked first as a researcher for television documentaries and then in publishing. Television research included entering the weird world of inventors and inventions, hunting for pirate treasure, investigating the two heads of Cromwell and delving into the wit and wisdom of branding. He is author of the hugely successful The Book Of Firsts and The Book Of Inventions for Cassell Illustrated.
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  MANKIND'S LAST STAND
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  They awoke billions of years after their time, upon a dying Earth, and with
  them awoke the Alien. He too had outlived his day—the first of the star-born
  race that had destroyed mankind had slept too long.
  
  
  
  
  
  So somewhere in time, upon a barren planet, the last of two species waged a
  desperate war for survival. But how could the four humans hope to win against
  that huge swirling force of dark energy that lived by sucking out the life-
  force of men, and that was now so ravenous with the hunger of ages?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **ACE BOOKS, NEW YORK**
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  EARTH'S LAST CITADEL
  
  
  C. L. MOORE AND HENRY KUTTNER
  
  
  
  
  
  AN ACE Book / published by arrangement with 