A Comfortable Demise

Sometimes certain books just sort of seem to fall into your hands, out of the blue, and resonate. Maybe it was the C.S. Lewis endorsement on the back of Arthur C. Clarke’s 1954 sci-fi novel Childhood’s End that initially caught my interest when I picked it up off the table in the graduate school floor at Oklahoma State University, but the first few pages of the book were more than enough to pull me in.