Written in the early 1950s, this acclaimed novel of The Overlords and their reign on Earth established Clarke as a master science fiction writer. --Jeremy Bernstein, The New Yorker.
Lewis As a science fiction writer, Clarke has all the essentials.
S. -- Los Angeles Times There 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 \'survival.\' --C.
Clarke is a master. . . -- The New York Times Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . or the beginning? Praise for Childhood\'s End A first-rate tour de force. . .
Has their arrival marked the end of humankind .
But at what cost? To those who resist, it\'s clear that the Overlords have an agenda of their own.
At first, their demands seem benevolent: unify Earth, eliminate poverty, end war.
Inside is an intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior alien race known as the Overlords.
Spaceships have suddenly appeared in the skies above every city on the planet.
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.
Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works.
Childhood\'s End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C.
The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries.
Written in the early 1950s, this acclaimed novel of The Overlords and their reign on Earth established Clarke as a master science fiction writer
