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Oct 5, 2016 · Childhood’s End: Human Nature and Utopia . Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End (1953) opens on two astronomers dreaming of the future of space travel when a fleet of alien ships descend and park themselves above the major cities on Earth. These ships are piloted by a race of aliens nicknamed “the Overlords” who seem to only have ...
Childhood's End: With Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts, Georgina Haig. After peaceful aliens invade Earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Dec 14, 2015 · December 14, 2015 @ 10:20 AM. Humanity’s struggle to understand its place in the universe was one of the central themes of science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke’s book “Childhood’s End ...
Mar 26, 2013 · [Verse] Someone died Gun-shot, right outside Your father, he's dead I see him in my head Childhood's End Goodbye, my holy friend Love me, it's a sin Can you see me caving in? [Chorus] Weighing ...
“Childhood's End” by Sammy Hagar & The Circle was written by Sammy Hagar.
Paperback – January 1, 1953. Childhood's End is a novel of the next step in the evolution of Man. It is compounded of intellectual daring and vaulting imagination -- a book in the great tradition of the novel of ideas. It tells of a world made perfect and a race transformed -- and of the unexpected tragedy of perfection.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The origins of Childhood’s End hark back to July of 1946 when Clarke wrote a short story entitled “Guardian Angel.” Although in its original format, it met with little success—“1 submitted it to Astounding, [and] it was promptly rejected” (Clarke in McAleer, p. 88)—it would eventually provide the basis for Part 1 of Childhood’s End.
