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Dark is the sun / Philip José Farmer

On a dying Earth fifteen billion years in the future, a young tribesman and his companions journey across a primitive landscape to recover a stolen artefact. Their search leads to an extraterrestrial being who holds the key to escaping the planet's final collapse.
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