As on a Darkling Plain is the chronological first book in The Others Saga by SF master and six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova. The discovery of huge alien machines operating on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is just the beginning of a nightmare for Dr. Sidney Lee.

What happens in a darkling plain?

A Darkling Plain Synopsis

Wren Natsworthy and her father have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Tom is troubled by Hester's disappearance and meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again.

What does the poet mean by darkling plain in the poem Dover Beach?

Those final three lines describe how "we," meaning humankind, "are here as on a darkling plain." This means that the surface on which we stand is darkening, the world around us becoming gloomier. Around us, there are "confused alarms of struggle and flight." This is a world marked by noise and instability.