Childhood's End | Techniques
Clarke's narrative is conservative, his vocabulary undemanding, his imagery conventional, and his point-of-view solidly that of the omniscient narrator. His style will occasionally rise to a semi-Biblical chant, which some critics have found bathetic, or become more sober for an occasional essay upon a remarkable feature of the physical world, for he clearly believes in the didactic potential of science fiction.
Each of his major novels seems composed of short stories. Childhood's End began as a short story entitled "Guardian Angel" (1950). In its final form it breaks into...
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