Childhood's End

Childhood's End - Mass Market Paperbound

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Childhood's End - Mass Market Paperbound

Childhood's End - Mass Market Paperbound

by Arthur C. Clarke
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Book Overview

by Arthur C. Clarke (Author)

Giant silver ships appear above every major city in the world. The Overlords have arrived. They eliminate ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear. After fifty years they also start eliminating humans.

Front Jacket

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind begins....

Author Biography

Arthur C. Clarke has long been considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and was an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that an article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke--both fiction and nonfiction--have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He died in 2008.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.62 x 6.98 x 4.17 IN
Publication Date: May 12, 1987
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Childhood's End
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 7.7
Point Value: 12
ISBN9780345347954
Author Arthur C. Clarke
PublisherDel Rey Books
GenreLiterature
FormatOther
PublishedMay 1987
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) wrote a hundred books and more than a thousand short stories and essays covering science fiction and science fact in a career spanning more than six decades. Among his bestselling novels are Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rendezvous with Rama.

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