Article Title

Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End: A Prescription for Producing Humanity’s Psychological Maturity

Authors

Bill Koch, University of Northern IowaFollow

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