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Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $5.99
Publish Date: July 3, 2001
Publisher: CRC House Publishing NIC
Seller: CRC House Publishing INC
Childhoodís End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded not only as a science fiction classic but as a literary thriller of the highest order.   Spaceships have suddenly appeared in the skies above every city on the planet. Inside is an intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior alien race known as the Overlords. At first, their demands seem benevolent: unify Earth, eliminate poverty, end war. But at what cost? To those who resist, itís clear that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. Has their arrival marked the end of humankind . . . or the beginning?   Praise for Childhoodís End   ìA first-rate tour de force.îóThe New York Times   ìFrighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.îóLos Angeles Times   ìThere has been nothing like it for years; partly for the actual invention, but partly because here we meet a modern author who understands that there may be things that have a higher claim on humanity than its own ësurvival.í îóC. S. Lewis   ìAs a science fiction writer, Clarke has all the essentials.îóJeremy Bernstein, The New Yorker
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