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Clarke is not especially interested in creating characters of great complexity. The Reinhold and Conrad of the "Prologue" suggest Wernher von Braun and Stormgren Trygve Lie. Jean and George are purposefully made conventional young adults; her paranormal ability is due to her children, not herself. Even Jan, the most self-willed character, is outstanding only because of his youth.
Childhood's End Summary & Study Guide - Arthur C. Clarke - eNotes.com
A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross
The following briefing film is classified SECRET GOLD JULY BOOJUM. If you do not have SECRET GOLD JULY BOOJUM clearance, leave the auditorium now and report to your unit security officer for debriefing. Failing to observe this notice is an imprisonable offense.
Subterranean Press » Fiction: Missile Gap by Charles Stross
It’s 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing — and the Earth is flat. It’s been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continents loom above tropical seas, offering a new start to colonists like newly-weds Maddy and Bob, and the hope of further glory to explorers like ex-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: but nobody knows why they exist, and outside the circle of exploration the universe is inexplicably warped. Gregor, in Washington DC, knows but isn’t talking.
