Document Type
Essays, Studies, and Works
Abstract
Earlier this year, when I would tell people that my Intro to Lit class was reading Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, they would react with smiles and nods of recognition.
Many said, “Yes, I read that long ago—it’s about spaceships coming to earth, right?”
Indeed it is, and more.
It was the first Clarke book I had read (several years ago for some forgotten reason), but when I finished the book I felt that Clarke had conveyed something of importance, even if in the form of science fiction. There was a gravitas to it I hadn’t expected. I read several of his other books to see if they had the same heft, but none of them did, even the Space Odyssey books.
Publication Date
Spring 2008
Journal Title
UNIversitas
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
7
Copyright
©2008 Bill Koch
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Koch, Bill
(2008)
"Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End: A Prescription for Producing Humanity’s Psychological Maturity,"
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol4/iss1/8
