Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke

ISBN 10: 0345347951 / ISBN 13: 9780345347954

Published by A Del Rey Book/Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1989

About this Item

218 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Light foxing on page edges. Slightly creased spine.

Seller Inventory # 5ivCf0069

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Childhood's End
• Publisher: A Del Rey Book/Published by Ballantine Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345347951
• ISBN 13: 9780345347954
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrator: Stanislaw Fernandes (Cover Art)
• Edition: 1st Ball Bks Ed/56th Print February 1989
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Science Fiction, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
  • Fiction-Classic Fiction & Novel
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel

About this title

Synopsis

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind begins....

About the Author

Arthur C. Clarke has long been considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and was an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that an article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke—both fiction and nonfiction—have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He died in 2008.