Childhood's End

Clarke's work is fascinating both in his philosophy and his accessible style. I was most intrigued by the Utopia created by the Overlords' arrival on Earth. At first, it clashed with everything I know about my own species. Then, when I set all my what if's aside, I started to wonder if we were not closing in on this space ourselves. As a person who already finds most of her waking hours devoted to leisure, devoted to consumption, I was terrified at the idea that that might be it for an adult like me who can't evolve any further. The book seems at once pessimistic in our human limits, yet optimistic in what we might mean to that great beyond. It's not the kind of book I can write a one paragraph blurb on, but it's one that has further stimulated questions I will seek to answer in my own writing from this sentence on.