Cradle | Techniques
Cradle, like 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), and many other Clarke novels, contains many brief chapters. However, the time frame for the human characters is little more than a long weekend: sections are titled Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and short chapters within the sections detail the thoughts and actions of the humans. The human story is framed by short chapters telling of the life-planting ship and of the council decisions which set and revised the aliens' policies for directing the nurture of life forms in one section of the universe.
With the humans' plot...
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