Dominic Flandry, believing that the Long Night is inevitable, vividly imagines the sack of Archopolis (see here) and thus plays the role of a foreseer of the Fall of Empire.
James Blish's Black Easter transforms Armageddon, the Biblical last battle, into a Ragnarok, a doom of the divine powers.
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Kaor, Paul!
And don't forget Dominic Flandry's anxious reflections about the probable fate of Admiralty Center in Chapter VI of WE CLAIM THESE STARS. It's destruction would mean something of "beauty and gallantry would have departed the universe" (quoting from memory). A somberly elegiac text!
Sean
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