224 pages, Borrowed from Local Library.Another Arthur C. Clarke book and another Science Fiction book that's always in the Top 10 Best Science Fiction list.
Alien spaceships turn up one day and announce they're taking control of us in a limited way to prevent us killing ourselves. The aliens stay in their ships and won't show their faces...or whatever they have for faces.
Not what I was expecting at all. I thought it was going to be a bog-standard alien invasion tale but it's so much better and different than that.
Humourous, fascinating and so unlike anything else I'd seen or read, it is easy to see why this was one of the authors favourite books.
A book that will stick with you long after you'd finished.
I give Childhood's End 5 "Overlords" out of 5!
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