On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What ran through my mind then were the words from the prologue of > Clarke's "Childhood's End" describing the invasion of Earth by a > fleet of extraterrestrial spacecraft: > > "This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present > sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from its frozen, > parent cliffs, and go sailing out to sea in lonely pride." I never did understand what inspired Sir Clarke to write this novel. Terry
