An edition of Childhood’s End (1953)

Childhood's End

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An edition of Childhood’s End (1953)

Childhood's End

[Book club ed.].

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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war, helps form a world government, and turns the planet into a near-utopia. Many questions are asked about the origins and mission of the aliens, but they avoid answering, preferring to remain in their ships, governing through indirect rule. Decades later, the Overlords eventually show themselves, and their impact on human culture leads to a Golden Age. However, the last generation of children on Earth begin to display powerful psychic abilities, heralding their evolution into a group mind, a transcendent form of life.

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Harcourt, Brace & World
Language
English
Pages
220

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Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Science fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Human evolution, Fiction, science fiction, general, Human-Alien encounter, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12

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Rikki Stormgren, Karellen, George Greggson, Jan Rodricks

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Childhood's End
Oct 04, 2008
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Childhood's end
2001, Del Rey Impact, Ballantine Publishing Group
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Childhood's End
October 18, 2001, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Childhood's end
1995, Del Rey
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May 12, 1987, Del Rey
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July 12, 1977, Del Rey
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1974, Ballantine Books
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Childhood's end.
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Childhood's end
1954, Pan Books
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1953, Harcourt, Brace & World
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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PR6005.L36 C55 1953b

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Pagination
220 p. ;
Number of pages
220

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OL24937563M
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childhoodsendclar00clar
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19746686

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