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An edition of Childhood’s End (1953)

Childhood's end

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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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Ballantine Books
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218

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Subjects
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
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October 18, 2001, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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2001, Del Rey Impact, Ballantine Publishing Group
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1995, Del Rey
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May 12, 1987, Del Rey
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Childhood's end
1974, Ballantine Books
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1963, Harcourt, Brace & World
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Childhood's end
1954, Pan Books
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1953, Harcourt, Brace & World
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Ballantine -- 27603

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Fic
Library of Congress
PR6005.L36 C45 1974

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Pagination
218 p.
Number of pages
218

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OL24203209M
OCLC/WorldCat
4127356

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