Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
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I
EARTH AND THE OVERLORDS
Chapter 1
The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years. Yet in a little while, thought Reinhold, the island would be bathed with fires fiercer than any that had attended its birth. He glanced towards the launching site, and his gaze climbed the pyramid of scaffolding that still surround ...