''Earth's Last Citadel'' is a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

novel written by the American husband and wife team of

C.L. Moore Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and ...

and

Henry Kuttner Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Early life Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. Kuttner (1829–1903) and Amelia Bush (c. 1834–1911), the ...

. It was first published in 1943 in the magazine '' Argosy'' and in book form it was published first in 1964.
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Plot

During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, 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.

References

Sources

* Clute, John and John Grant. ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy''. London: Orbit Books, 1997. .

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* 1943 American novels 1943 science fiction novels American science fiction novels Novels about time travel Post-apocalyptic novels Works originally published in Argosy (magazine) Ace Books books Novels first published in serial form {{1940s-sf-novel-stub