July Brunch - Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)

We haven't done science fiction in over a year and Childhood's End is a classic. In this novel, Clarke explores utopianism, perceptions of technology, human purpose, and the limitations of all of these.

Reviews:
Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master (Los Angeles Times)

As a science fiction writer, Clarke has all the essentials (The New Yorker)

There has been nothing like it for years; partly for the actual invention, but partly because here we meet a modern author who understands that there may be things that have a higher claim on humanity than its own 'survival' (C. S. Lewis)

About the Author:
Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty books, among which are the science fiction classics 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He was knighted in 1998. He died in 2008 at his home in Sri Lanka.