5/20/2023 0 Comments The sentinel book arthur c clarkeThe novel's theme of transcendent evolution also appears in Clarke's Space Odyssey series. Director Stanley Kubrick expressed interest in the 1960s, but collaborated with Clarke on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) instead. Several attempts to adapt the novel into a film or miniseries have been made with varying levels of success. The novel was nominated for the Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004. Along with The Songs of Distant Earth (1986), Clarke considered Childhood's End to be one of his favourites of his own novels. The book is often regarded by both readers and critics as Clarke's best novel and is described as "a classic of alien literature". Completed and published in 1953, Childhood's End sold out its first printing, received good reviews and became Clarke's first successful novel. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.Ĭlarke's idea for the book began with his short story "Guardian Angel" (published in New Worlds #8, winter 1950), which he expanded into a novel in 1952, incorporating it as the first part of the book, "Earth and the Overlords". Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C.
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