Book review - Childhood's end
Author Arthur Charles Clarke Subject Science fiction Year 1990 Publisher New York: Del Rey ISBN 0345347951 Written by one of the greatest sci-fi authors in the 20th century, Childhood's End describes some extra-terrestrial organisms, the Overlords, coming to Earth near the end of the century with the seeming intent to bring law and order to the human race. However, as time moves on their ultimate agenda is revealed – they are helping human beings to transform from their materialistic existence to integrate with the omnipotent, spiritual Overmind of the universe. It touches on the ideas of extra-terrestrial organisms, interstellar travel, human psychic power and subconscious archetypes as well as apocalyptic revelation. Personally thought, the characters in the prologue and first part are not properly tied up to the rest of the story, rendering them ra...