Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood’s End

£60

Illustrated By Grace Aldrich

Arthur C. Clarke’s seminal sci-fi novel Childhood’s End charts a utopian alien invasion with a surprising twist. This beautiful new edition features the spectacular artwork of Grace Aldrich.

Childhood’s End

£60
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingBound in printed and blocked cloth
Slipcase printed and matt laminated
Dimensions9½ inches x 6¾ inches
FontSet in Berling with Helvetica as display
Pages248 pages
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
Illustrated ByGrace Aldrich
Illustration5 full-page colour illustrations
Black & white illustrated title page spread
Publication Date14/03/2023
Editor's Notes
 
It is the late 1970s and the United States and Soviet Republic are on the cusp of entering outer space. However, just as space travel is within their grasp, alien spaceships descend over the earth’s major cities ... five years later, the Overlords have taken over the world. American illustrator Grace Aldrich elevates the tension and uneasiness in the narrative to present the strange new reality in six unnerving illustrations, while her striking binding design features the pivotal character, Jan Rodricks.

About the illustrator

Grace Aldrich

Grace Aldrich is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist from Kansas City. Her early art education was mostly self-taught, learning through online courses and books before finally attending The Illustration Academy. She specialises in acrylic and digital painting, using her traditional painting skills to emphasise colour and light in her illustrations. Her digital illustrations are hand-drawn, with an effort to produce a classical painting feel, utilising modern tools. Her work has been recognised by established annuals and exhibitions such as 3x3, American Illustration, Surreal Salon, and Communication Arts.

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About the illustrator

Grace Aldrich

Grace Aldrich is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist from Kansas City. Her early art education was mostly self-taught, learning through online courses and books before finally attending The Illustration Academy. She specialises in acrylic and digital painting, using her traditional painting skills to emphasise colour and light in her illustrations. Her digital illustrations are hand-drawn, with an effort to produce a classical painting feel, utilising modern tools. Her work has been recognised by established annuals and exhibitions such as 3x3, American Illustration, Surreal Salon, and Communication Arts.

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About the illustrator

Grace Aldrich

Grace Aldrich is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist from Kansas City. Her early art education was mostly self-taught, learning through online courses and books before finally attending The Illustration Academy. She specialises in acrylic and digital painting, using her traditional painting skills to emphasise colour and light in her illustrations. Her digital illustrations are hand-drawn, with an effort to produce a classical painting feel, utilising modern tools. Her work has been recognised by established annuals and exhibitions such as 3x3, American Illustration, Surreal Salon, and Communication Arts.

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About the illustrator

Grace Aldrich

Grace Aldrich is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist from Kansas City. Her early art education was mostly self-taught, learning through online courses and books before finally attending The Illustration Academy. She specialises in acrylic and digital painting, using her traditional painting skills to emphasise colour and light in her illustrations. Her digital illustrations are hand-drawn, with an effort to produce a classical painting feel, utilising modern tools. Her work has been recognised by established annuals and exhibitions such as 3x3, American Illustration, Surreal Salon, and Communication Arts.

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About the illustrator

Grace Aldrich

Grace Aldrich is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist from Kansas City. Her early art education was mostly self-taught, learning through online courses and books before finally attending The Illustration Academy. She specialises in acrylic and digital painting, using her traditional painting skills to emphasise colour and light in her illustrations. Her digital illustrations are hand-drawn, with an effort to produce a classical painting feel, utilising modern tools. Her work has been recognised by established annuals and exhibitions such as 3x3, American Illustration, Surreal Salon, and Communication Arts.

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About the illustrator

Grace Aldrich

Grace Aldrich is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist from Kansas City. Her early art education was mostly self-taught, learning through online courses and books before finally attending The Illustration Academy. She specialises in acrylic and digital painting, using her traditional painting skills to emphasise colour and light in her illustrations. Her digital illustrations are hand-drawn, with an effort to produce a classical painting feel, utilising modern tools. Her work has been recognised by established annuals and exhibitions such as 3x3, American Illustration, Surreal Salon, and Communication Arts.

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About the Author

Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. Volunteering for RAF service in 1941, Clarke worked on radar systems during the Second World War, and published an influential paper in 1945 which sketched the potential for orbital communication satellites. His passionate interest in science was allied with an early facility for fiction writing, and he went on to write more than 70 books, including Childhood’s End (1967; Folio Society 2023), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Folio Society 2016), Rendezvous with Rama (1973; Folio Society 2020), Rama II (1989), The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1991) and The Garden of Rama (1991). He became the world’s foremost science-fiction writer and won numerous international awards including the Hugo and Nebula. In 1968 he shared an Academy Award nomination for his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was awarded a knighthood in 1998 and died in 2008 in his adopted home of Sri Lanka.