you think you're so fucken smart, don't you mark? ha, think again. all your little plans and goals, your little community of friends and family and colleagues, your whole little life... what does it matter in the long run? not a whole fucken lot. grow up, sad child.take this book for example. a clas...
A great piece of science speculation. The novel reads like a giant "What if we were contacted by alien life forms?" Clarke covers 150 years of hypothetical history and development, pursuing the logical consequences of such contact and the sharing of technology on society, culture, economy, science a...
From my vast expertise of having read all of two, count them, two, Arthur C. Clarke books, I am seeing a common theme. I don't know if it extends beyond that to his other books, but here it is: The universe is a very, very big place. And humans might just be irrelevant to it. What is going on out th...
As one with high aspirations for the human race, in spite of its frequently embarrassing stumbles (wars, politics, persistent absence of flying cars, etc.), the premise and final revelation of this tale saddened me somewhat. The Overlords come to Earth, halting millennia of strife and suffering amon...
As a Sci-Fi junkie I had to read this book. In Clarke's world man is now able to travel the entire earth in flying cars but communication is still TV and radio based no one seems to own a computer and people are still reading the newspaper and printed books. (I had to remind myself that this book w...
Geocentric aliens arrive during the Cold War, frustrate the space programs of the US and the USSR, and legislate an alien utopia (altertopia?), wherein human societies have abolished "ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear" as well as even the "memory of war" (71). The "face of the world was remade"...
This is a very interesting novel indeed. The question about the Overlords' motive kept me going, and I really liked the description of how the world was affected by their actions.The story wasn't hard to follow, though it doesn't have any kind of protagonist. Some characters got into focus from time...
Classic, amazing, thought-ful and provoking. Sci-fi at its best. Interesting to me that Childhood's End is a page-turner, but not one that you want to gobble up. It didn't keep me up at night reading 'just one more chapter' - yet I didn't pick up another book in the meantime. The book is nourishing ...
This book has a striking similarity with Blood Music by Greg Bear or more correctly, Blood Music is more similar to this. But tell you what, putting all the philosophical things aside, I didn't like Blood Music (2 stars) and I didn't like this book even.Call it over-expectation or whatever you like,...
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