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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:In the Retro Hugo Award??nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth??at a grave price: "A first-rate tour de force" (The New York Times).
In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind's largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems.
Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems.
"Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master." ??Los Angeles T… (mais)
Navios de prata gigantes aparecem em todas as grandes cidades do mundo. Os Senhores Supremos chegaram. Eles eliminam a ignorância, a doença, a pobreza e o medo. Depois de cinquenta anos, eles também começam a eliminar os humanos. É o ¨Fim da Infância¨ da nossa humanidade. Os Senhores Supremos revelam sua aparência: grandes bípedes que se assemelham a imagens folclóricas cristãs tradicionais de demônios, com cascos fendidos, asas de couro, chifres e caudas farpadas. Um Clarke antológico. ( )
I'm not sure Childhood's End is the first book my dad gave me, but it was one of the first, and it's certainly the one I remember most vividly. And it's probably a book that changed my life.
adicionado por RBeffa | editarDaily Kos, DOM9000(Jul 8, 2011)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years. (Original)
Before she flew to the launch site, Helena Lyakhov always went through the same ritual. (1989 Updated Version)
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from its parent cliffs, and goes sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All that the past ages had achieved was as nothing now; only one thought echoed and re-echoed through Mohan's brain: The human race was no longer alone.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
No one dared disturb him or interrupt his thoughts: and presently he turned his back upon the dwindling Sun.
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:In the Retro Hugo Award??nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth??at a grave price: "A first-rate tour de force" (The New York Times).
In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind's largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems.
Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems.
"Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master." ??Los Angeles T
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