A long time since I've read that one.

I don't think that film could be made. Hollywood could never accept the end.

>My favorite story of his was "The Nine Billion Names of God". It creeped me out when I was a teen and first read it.
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>Hey, Nick, don't you think that a $100 MM epic could be made of "Chidhood's End"? My alltime favorite Clarke novel (followed closely by Rendezvous with Rama).
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>>>Sigh.
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>>>I guess my Childhood is at an End. Godspeed, Arthur.
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>>Yes
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>>great books and great ideas. I grew up reading those stories.
>>I've still got my original very dog eared copy of the sands of mars somewhere. (not a 1st edition but the first one I ever bought)
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>>Nick