I remember getting Childhood's End out of the school library. I devoured it. It was the first time I realised there was more to life than Willard Price. So I made a little diversion to Strand Books this evening, to see what they had, and found this splendid anthology. I used to pore over these Chris Moore covers too.
This is from the foreword, it seems appropriate:
"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this universe, there shines a star."
Er, this Arthur C. Clarke guy was great and all, but "more to life than Willard Price"? Let's try and keep things in perspective, shall we?
Posted by: James | March 20, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Bless him on his departure. And I thought I was the only Willard Price fan left who;d admit it....
Posted by: iain | March 20, 2008 at 08:53 PM