One of the first SF stories I read and written by one of my first favourite SF writers when I was about 12 and got into SF big time - Arthur C. Clarke.
Sky have a television mini-series based on the novel. It isn't at all bad. Part 2 on tonight but of course available elsewhere.
Recommended as a bit of a novelty.
Childhoods End
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I might have to dig that out. I too read the book in my teenage years - a period when I tore through the SF section of the local public library.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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If that's the miniseries that the SyFy channel broadcast in the US in December, then prepare to be disappointedRum wrote:One of the first SF stories I read and written by one of my first favourite SF writers when I was about 12 and got into SF big time - Arthur C. Clarke.
Sky have a television mini-series based on the novel. It isn't at all bad. Part 2 on tonight but of course available elsewhere.
Recommended as a bit of a novelty.
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I am. God has appeared in the story. Episode #2 went downhill fast. Don't bother people - miles away from the original.
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It bloody dragged.
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It brings an interesting point, of course. If a vastly more technologically advanced alien species arrived on Earth, and were serious and high-minded, not interested in conquest but horrified by our wars and environmental destruction, how easy would it be for them to put us on the straight and narrow?
I like the idea that they are left-leaning atheists, who zap all the world's churches with district rays!
I like the idea that they are left-leaning atheists, who zap all the world's churches with district rays!
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