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Childhood's End
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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
The Last Generation
Although humanity and the Overlords have peaceful relations, some believe human innovation is being suppressed and that culture is becoming stagnant. One of these groups establish "New Athens," an island colony in the middle of the Pacific Ocean devoted to the creative arts, which George and Jean Greggson join. The Overlords conceal a special interest in the Greggsons' children, Jeffrey and Jennifer Anne, and intervene to save Jeffrey's life when a tsunami strikes the island. The Overlords have been watching them since the incident with the Ouija board, which revealed the seed of the coming transformation hidden within Jean.
Sixty years after the Overlords' arrival, human children, beginning with the Greggsons', begin to display clairvoyance and telekinetic powers. Karellen reveals the Overlords' purpose; they serve the Overmind, a vast cosmic intelligence, born of amalgamated ancient civilizations, and freed from the limitations of material existence. The Overlords themselves are unable to join the Overmind, but serve it as a bridge species, fostering other races' eventual union with it. For the transformed children's safety, they are segregated on a continent of their own. No more human children are born, and many parents die or commit suicide. The members of New Athens destroy themselves with a nuclear bomb.
Jan Rodricks emerges from hibernation on the Overlord supply ship and arrives on their planet. The Overlords permit him a glimpse of how the Overmind communicates with them. When Jan returns to Earth (approximately 80 years after his departure by Earth time) he finds an unexpectedly altered planet. Humanity has effectively become extinct, and he is now the last man alive. Hundreds of millions of children – no longer fitting what Rodricks defines as "human" – remain on the quarantined continent, having become a single intelligence readying themselves to join the Overmind.
Some Overlords remain on Earth to study the children from a safe distance. When the evolved children mentally alter the Moon's rotation and make other planetary manipulations, it becomes too dangerous to remain. The departing Overlords offer to take Rodricks with them, but he chooses to stay to witness Earth's end, and transmit a report of what he sees.
Before they depart, Rodricks asks Rashaverak what encounter the Overlords had with Humanity in the past, according to an assumption that the fear that Humans had of their "demonic" form was due to a traumatic encounter with them in the distant past; but Rashaverak explains that the primal fear experienced by Humans was not due to a racial memory, but a racial premonition of the Overlords' role in their metamorphosis.
The Overlords are eager to escape from their own evolutionary dead end by studying the Overmind, so Rodricks's information is potentially of great value to them. By radio, Rodricks describes a vast burning column ascending from the planet. As the column disappears, Rodricks experiences a profound sense of emptiness when the Overlords have gone. Then material objects and the Earth itself begin to dissolve into transparency. Jan reports no fear, but a powerful sense of fulfillment. The Earth evaporates in a flash of light. Karellen looks back at the receding Solar System and gives a final salute to the human species.
From 7/19/1932 ( my biological paternal great-grand-uncle His Majesty King George V officially opens the Lambeth Bridge over River Thames ) To 8/18/1990 ( the dedication of the Spokane Washington State Riverfront Park sculpture "The Childhood Express" ) is 21214 days
21214 = 10607 + 10607
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/17/1994 is 10607 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-childhood-express.html ]
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
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USA 17 November 1994 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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IMMORTALITY, INC
by Robert Sheckley
13
“What was dying like?” Blaine asked.
“It was like exploding. I could feel myself scattering all over the place, growing big as the galaxy, bursting into fragments, and the fragments bursting into smaller fragments, and all of them were me.”
“And what happened?”
“I don't know. Maybe being so angry helped. I was stretched as far as I could go — any further and it wouldn't be me — and then I just simply came back together again. Some people do. Like I told you, a few out of every million have always survived without hereafter training. I was one of the lucky ones.”
“I guess you know about me,” Blaine said. “I tried to do something for you, but you'd already been sold.”
“I know,” Melhill said. “Thanks anyhow, Tom. And say, thanks for popping that slob. The one wearing my body.”
“You saw that?”
“I been keeping my eyes open,” Melhill said. “By the way, I like that Marie. Nice looking kid.”
“Thanks. Ray, what's the hereafter like?”
“I don't know.”
“You don't?”
“I'm not in the hereafter yet, Tom. I'm in the Threshold. It's a preparatory stage, a sort of bridge between Earth and the hereafter. It's hard to describe. A sort of greyness, with Earth on one side and the hereafter on the other.”
“Why don't you cross over?” Blaine asked.
“Not yet,” Melhill said. “It's a one-way street into the hereafter. Once you cross over, you can't come back. There's no more contact with Earth.”
Blaine thought about that for a moment, then asked, “When are you going to cross over, Ray?”
“I don't rightly know. I thought I'd stay in Threshold for a while and keep an eye on things.”
“Keep an eye on me, you mean.”
“Well…”
“Thanks a lot, Ray, but don't do it. Go into the hereafter. I can take care of myself.”
“Sure you can,” Melhill said. “But I think I'll stick around for a while anyhow. You'd do it for me, wouldn't you? So don't argue. Now look, I suppose you know you’re in trouble?”
Blaine nodded, “You mean the zombie?”
“I don't know who he is or what he wants from you, Tom, but it can't be good. You'd better be a long way off when he finds out. But that wasn't the trouble I meant.”
“You mean I have more?”
“Afraid so. You’re going to be haunted, Tom.”
In spite of himself, Blaine laughed.
“What's so funny?” Melhill asked indignantly. “You think it's a joke to be haunted?”
“I suppose not. But is it really so serious?”
“Lord, you’re ignorant,” Melhill said. “Do you know anything about ghosts? How they’re made and what they want?”
From 7/16/1928 ( Robert Sheckley ) To 8/18/1990 ( the dedication of the Spokane Washington State Riverfront Park sculpture "The Childhood Express" ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/10/star-trek-first-contact-1996.html ]
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
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James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
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Robert Sheckley
American writer
Robert Sheckley, (born July 16, 1928, Brooklyn, N.Y.—died Dec. 9, 2005, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
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Albert Einstein's theory of relativity transforms him from an obscure bureaucrat into the world's most-celebrated scientist while changing the way mankind understands the universe.
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