{"product_id":"childhoods-end-paperback","title":"Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fiction Paperback Book","description":"\u003ch2\u003eChildhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke’s haunting and philosophical vision of humanity’s final transformation, presented in this paperback edition.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA quiet, unsettling classic that replaces space battles with ideas, and asks what humanity might gain — and lose — by becoming something more.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen immense alien craft appear without warning above the world’s major cities, Earth’s long history of conflict ends almost overnight. The mysterious Overlords impose peace, abolish war and inequality, and guide humanity into an age of stability and comfort. 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