CHILDHOOD'S END

by Arthur C. Clarke

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Childhood's End

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 034529730X, Mass Market Paperback)

This novel tells the tale of the last generation of mankind on Earth. All man's development in space and travel are stopped by alien "overlords" who take over Earth, establishing a benevolent dictatorship which eliminates poverty, ignorance and disease. This golden age ends abruptly as the overlords bend to the will of a superior intelligence which demands Earth's destruction.

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