Childhood's End

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Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the film of the same name; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. Wikipedia. Childhood's End was published in 1953.

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Pagination follows Del Rey paperback, 1990.

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Mare Imbrium
"Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare (mahr'-ay) filling a basin on Earth's Moon. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago." Wikipedia

Yuri
Gagarin, obviously.

Star Village
"Star City, Russia, is a military research and training facility some 32 km northeast of Moscow. Cosmonauts have lived and trained in Star City at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre (GCTC) since the 1960s. Although Star City is the official translation of its name, the diminutive Starry Township is more accurate. In the Soviet era the town was a highly secretive guarded installation restricted from the rest of the country and the world. Many Russian cosmonauts, past and present, and Training Centre's personnel live in Star City with their families." Wikipedia

Mohan Kaleer
Mohan is a common Indian name.

Function of chapter 1: introduce when we are. Driven by "what" (has blocked out the moon) and why (has human history as we know it come to an end).

==Chapter 2==