Childhood’s End
★★★★★Read Oct 16, 2014
A pleasant and thoughtful sci-fi book, although it feels a bit dated now. I particularly liked the Singularity theme, also the mystery of the benevolent invading aliens. Clarke gets a bit preachy at times, clumsily explaining his particular world building or grinding some political ax. But it's never more than a few pages and balanced by his curiously empathetic male protagonists. A nice light read.
Goodreads readers give it 4.12★, from 179,126 ratings. I gave it 3★, −1.1, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Science Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Aliens, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction.
Nominated for Retro Hugo Award 2004.