Interesting, yes, but after about the halfway mark I didn’t really enjoy the book anymore.Īside from the paranormal being such an important part, there are other problems too. Seen in this light, it is one of the more interesting historical pieces of speculative fiction I’ve read… So much has changed in a few decades, and Childhood’s End is clearly a reflection of that. Four decades later (…) I am an almost total sceptic. (…) It has been a long, and sometimes embarrassing, learning process. When this book was written in the early 1950s, I was still quite impressed by the evidence for what is generally called the paranormal, and used it as the main theme of the story. Clarke acknowledges this in his 1989 preface: Although the novel starts promising, the biggest problem I experienced was my growing disbelief. Childhood’s End is 20 years younger than Rama, and I found it much harder to like. In both books big stuff from outer space approaches, and whereas in Rama ultimately nothing happens to Earth, in Childhood’s End ultimately everything happens to Earth. In a way, this book is the opposite of Rendezvous with Rama.
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