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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion [ 1 ] of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
Childhood's End is an American-Australian television miniseries based on the 1953 novel of the same name, by Arthur C. Clarke, and developed by Matthew Graham. It premiered on Syfy on December 14, 2015.
In Clarke's authorised biography, Neil McAleer writes: "many readers and critics still consider Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke's best novel." [44] But Clarke did not use ESP in any of his later stories, saying, "I've always been interested in ESP, and of course, Childhood's End was about that. But I've grown disillusioned, partly because ...
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Childhood's End or Child Hood's End may also refer to: Western media
Minka Kelly is telling all. The 42-year-old actress opens up for the first time about her upbringing and "complicated" relationships with her parents in her new book, Tell Me Everything, candidly ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
"Childhood's End" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1972 album Obscured by Clouds. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the last Pink Floyd song to feature lyrics written by David Gilmour , until A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987.
This coincided with the end of the ability of the race to procreate itself --the adults were left behind to grow old and just die off, thus the title of the book: "Childhood's End" Clarke, like many today, really believe that the human race is headed for a great evolutionary leap and that it could actually occur along the lines that he ...