The Last Don The Last Don The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of "The Godfather". The story alternates between the film industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to both. The last plan of Don Domenico Clericuzio, an aging Mafia boss, is to eventually have his family enter the legitimate world and assimilate into American society. Twenty-five years later, his grandson Dante and grandnephew Croccifixio (Cross) make their way through life, and the eighty-year-old Don is semi-retired. Cross, who holds a majority share in a Las Vegas casino, is
The Last Theorem Fountains of Paradise", and the equator north to Sri Lanka in "The Last Theorem". The solar powered space yacht race was first featured in a short story of Clarke's, "The Wind from the Sun" (1964), and the concept of a "mysterious Elder Race" deciding our fate, in this case the Grand Galactics, has appeared in several of Clarke's previous novels, including "Childhood's End" (1953) and the "Space Odyssey Series" (1968–1997). Some of Pohl's earlier themes also appear here, including his human-machine hybrid which featured in "Man Plus" (1976). Clarke wrote over 30 science fiction novels and over 100 works of