"Childhood's End" Topic

"When it comes to mini series SyFy is about to give a greenlight to CHILDHOOD'S END six episode sf series based on Arthur C. Clarke's book about a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war and turns the planet into a near-utopia! At the same time, WGN America has ordered 13 episodes of TITANS series telling the story of a family of outsiders who've been in the hills of Appalachia since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary. Beside ordering THE TEN COMMANDMENTS series before, they will also produce UNDERGROUND historical drama about the famous Underground Railroad used to smuggle slaves from the pre-Civil War South to the North!"
From Hollywood Spy.

Arthur C. Clarke in general and Childhood's End in particular bring me very good memories from my teen days! (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

Same here, I loved Childhood's End. SyFy tends to do a little better with their original series than they do with their original movies, so I hope the series does the book justice.

I liked what they did with Dune, and CE should not require a huge SFX budget (I forget what the aliens looked like). So keeping my fingers crossed.

Then again I saw both versions of Riverworld…

I love Childhood's End. The alien looked like The Devil.

Dune was done with the help of the BBC I wonder if we might see something like that.

Tango01:

I have very fond memories of this book. It was, in a way, the capstone to my own childhood fascination with hard science fiction of the sort popularized by AC Clarke and his contemporaries. I read it quite near the end of my own childhood, having read several of the author's novels in a row, in a short period in my middle teens. As I remember, an excellent book. I moved on from my focused concentration on the hard science fiction novel of big ideas, as pursued by Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven and their fellows, but was to return many times, especially with the resurgence of the hard SF novel and the New Baroque Space Opera in the Late Nineties and Early Aughts.

Good times. A pivotal book for me, after I had perhaps decided that hard SF didn't quite have as much to say to me as literary/social SF of the sort purveyed by Blish, Sheckley, Ellison, Bradbury and PKD. Clarke, with his quietly confident scholarly erudition, proved me quite wrong and opened my eyes to a larger union of the form, and the ultimate limitations of genre labels in the face of individual works (which denied immediate classification and the sort of contemptuous over-familiarity that Robert Anton Wilson called "damning through naming").

Thanks for reminding me. Cheers.

We feel (and read) the same my friend.

Amicalement
Armand