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Childhood’s End
224 pages1953
Human-alien encountersFictionScience fictionLong Now Manual for CivilizationHuman evolution
About This Book
In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: "A first-rate tour de force" ( The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind's largest cities. They belong to the...
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5h 42m
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180 WPM
4h 6m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 56m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 61,600 words📅 9 days at 30 min/day
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