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Childhood’s End

by Arthur C. Clarke

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Content type: Fiction

BEFORE SHE FLEW to the launch site, Helena Lyakhov always went through the same ritual.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Extraterrestrial beings” and “Human-alien encounters”. Retained metadata contains “alien encounter” in the subject metadata, “extraterrestrial” in the subject metadata, “Extraterrestrial beings” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • Extraterrestrial beings· via Open Library
    • Human-alien encounters· via Open Library
    • alien encounter· in subject
    • extraterrestrial· in subject
    • Extraterrestrial beings· in subject
    • Human-alien encounters· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 81 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Open Library record

1952EnglishBorrowable

Subjects

15 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Identifiers

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 81 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL17415W
Edition coverage
Representative plus work aggregates
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