ing like that would happen. Almost as if the book was Karellen's captain's log on his ship, dispelling everything that occurred and leaving the most enlightening part for the end. I truly believed that I was reading something that was beyond anything I had read before. Surpassing even the insight the late genius Carl Sagan made into Pi at the closing pages of "Contact." While the descriptions of the Overlords' home planet were somewhat trifling for my abilities to imagine inside my head, I had to re-read a few of the passages Clarke wrote. I'm sure even the character of Jan had difficulty taking it all in. I have, under much consideration, contemplated the production of this story into a full-fledged motion picture event. Each page keeps the reader addicted. I found myself reading the third chapter after ten minutes, at first only intending to read the first couple of pages. What an incredible movie it would indeed make! Very idealistic and daring, but so were many blockbusters in the past...Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Titanic, and the beautiful 2001: A Space Odyssey. (This young man hopes one day to see this on the big screen.) I'm sure Mr. Clarke is very interested in trying to make it into a movie. However, he gives his reasons why he might not happen, "According to information I've just received from the Hollywood Gulags, the current asking-price for Childhood's End is more than two hundred times that of the perfectly satisfactory fee I received in 1956." Money, of course is always the ultimate consideration in Hollywood. What is needed are sources in Hollywood that transcend the suits with their past creative successes. Such people include Clarke's friend, Steven Spielberg, and collaborator Stanley Kubrick. Even I began to envision each of the scenes in a Kubrick way. Once done by Robert Zemeckis with Carl Sagan's Contact, I to hope to see this film started before the set of Arthur Clarke. If this book is every m...
