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Childhood's and End
In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.
Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;
In the novel Childhood's End ( 1953 ) by Arthur C. Clarke, all humans have a collective premonition, also described as a memory of the future, of horned aliens which arrive to usher in a new phase of human evolution.
Many science fiction works have received widespread critical acclaim including Childhood's End and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Sentinel ( published 1982 ) is also the title of a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories, including the eponymous " The Sentinel ", " Guardian Angel " ( the inspiration for his Childhood's End ), " The Songs of Distant Earth ", and " Breaking Strain ".
* Childhood's End ( 1954 ) by Arthur C. Clarke, alien beings guide humanity towards a more economically productive and technologically advanced society, allowing humans to broaden their mental capacities.
The Purifiers believe that mutants are not human beings but children of the devil, and have attempted to exterminate them several times, most recently in the " Childhood's End " storyline.
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.
Completed and published in 1953, Childhood's End sold out its first printing and received good reviews, becoming Clarke's first successful novel of his career.
Along with The Songs of Distant Earth ( 1986 ), Clarke considered Childhood's End one of his favourite novels.
In 1997, the BBC produced an original, two-hour radio dramatization of Childhood's End written by Tony Mulholland.
The novel first took shape in July 1946, when Clarke wrote " Guardian Angel ", a short story that would eventually become Part I of Childhood's End.
In February 1952, Clarke started working on the novelization of " Guardian Angel ", completing a first draft of the novel Childhood's End in December ; a final revision occurred in January 1953.
Literary agent Bernard Shir-Cliff convinced Ballantine Books to buy everything Clarke had, including Childhood's End, " Encounter in the Dawn " ( 1953 ), ( which Ballantine changed to Expedition to Earth ), and Prelude to Space ( 1951 ).
However, Clarke had composed two different endings for the novel, and the last chapter of Childhood's End was still not finished.
The couple spent their honeymoon in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, where Clarke proofread Childhood's End.
When Childhood's End was published the following month, it originally appeared with a dedication to his wife: " To Marilyn, For letting me read the proofs on our honeymoon.
Ballantine wanted to publish Childhood's End before Expedition to Earth and Prelude to Space, but Clarke wanted to wait.
Ballantine finally convinced Clarke to let them publish Childhood's End first, and on August 24, 1953, the novel was published with a cover designed by American science fiction illustrator Richard M. Powers.
Childhood's End appeared in both paperback and hardcover upon its initial release, with the paperback as the primary edition, an unusual approach for the 1950s.
" While praising Clarke's work as " Stapledonian its historic concepts and also for the quality of its prose and thinking ," they concluded that Childhood's End was " an awkward and imperfect book.
Aldiss and Wingrove wrote that Childhood's End rested on " a rather banal philosophical idea ," but that Clarke " expressed is simple but aspiring language that vaguely recalls the Psalms combined with a dramatized sense of loss undeniable effect.

Childhood's and also
Arthur C Clarke's novel Childhood's End has the Overlords refer to Mankind's " apotheosis " when the world's children evolve into their union with the Overmind ( see also post-human ).
* A time viewer is also used in Clarke's Childhood's End, although it plays a minor role in the plot.

Childhood's and World
Prominent examples from the Cold War era include Childhood's End ( 1953 ), Starship Troopers ( 1959 ), Star Trek ( from 1966 ) and the Doctor Who story The Enemy of the World ( 1968 ).

Childhood's and by
On October 28, 2008, Audible. com released a 7 hour and 47 minute unabridged version of Childhood's End narrated by Eric Michael Summerer under its " Audible Frontiers " imprint.
** “ Childhood's End ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Kev Walker, in Judge Dredd Megazine ( vol.
Research by Robin Moore ( Childhood's Domain: Play and Place, 1986 ) has clearly shown that playgrounds need to be balanced with marginal areas that ( to adults ) appear to be derelict or wasteground but to children they are area's that they can claim for themselves, ideally a wooded area or field.
* Utopia in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, at Fantastic Metropolis
Psionic abilities are often displayed by beings who do or are in process of transcending their physical existence ( such as humankind, in the science fiction classic Childhood's End ).
* In Childhood's End, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke published in 1953, the alien cultures had been observing and registering the Earth's evolution and human history for thousands ( perhaps millions ) of years.
* Childhood's End, a science fiction book by Arthur C. Clarke that contains an alien species known as the Overlords

Childhood's and Overlords
The novel Childhood's End may be viewed as a form of demonic alien invasion, because of the Overlords ' devilish appearances.

Childhood's and for
Months before his performance at Woodstock in 1969, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens told Ebony magazine about his appreciation for Clarke's story and expressed his personal interest in working on a future film adaptation of Childhood's End.
* The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Tor Books, 1995 ( James Tiptree, Jr. Award shortlist )
Steven McDonald, for AllMusic, notes that Hammill songs take ".. a dead run at a grandiose concept or two-the consequences of immortality on the title track, and the grand fate of humanity on the epic " Childlike Faith in Childhood's End.
Among the most significant such Golden Age narratives are: Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles ; Clarke's Childhood's End ; Blish's A Case of Conscience ; and Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.
* " The Session " ( The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, ed.
" Roland Green in his review for Booklist was much more positive saying " Baxter uses many more characters and viewpoint shifts than Arthur C. Clarke in support of a theme that distinctly recalls Clarke's classic Childhood's End ( 1953 ).

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