The Overlords Painting

"All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power." "Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now." "In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man." -Karellen Overlords appear in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End. They are demonic beings that suddenly appear over every city on Earth and give out few demands: the end of war, unification of Earth, and elimination of poverty. Unlike most aliens in fiction, the Overlords do not show themselves at first and let humanity wait fifty years before seeing an Overlord. Childhood's End was adapted for a three-part a series by the SyFy channel in 2015. Biology: The Overlords appear like the demons of old. They are red-skinned, winged, have stubby horns and a barbed tail. They range from seven to ten feet tall. The presence of wings assume that they come from a place that has a low gravity field. They could breathe Earth air comfortably, yet they carry small gas cylinders occasionally. This suggest that the atmosphere of the Earth is subtly different from the one that they are used to. Their mental abilities surpass those of humanity, suggesting that their civilization has advanced much, much earlier that the human race. They live on a planet where each city is devoted to a single scientific field, as overlanders love knowledge and learning. Their buildings lack stairs, their streets lack paths and doors and rooms are on strange parts of their skyscrapers. Overlanders are both desturbed and fascinated by our sleeping habits, as they cannot and never need to sleep. Their evolution is slow and they have almost hit their peak, yet envy humans due to the fact they haven't peaked at their evolution yet. To fly, they tuck their arms behind their backs. Objective: Overlords might seem to be in charge of the proceedings but the fact of the matter is that they are following the orders of the creatures they call 'Overmind'. They are tasked by the Overmind to take care of mankind in order to prepare the way for their evolution and pacification. They are initially jealous of man's capability of evolution but they have come to accept it as inevitable. One of their tasks while taking care of humanity is to make sure that humanity is not capable of traversing space due to the lack of knowledge. Source: Allien Species Wiki Karellen is the only character to appear throughout the entire novel. He is the leader of the Overlords on Earth, and is known to humans as the "Supervisor." At first, Karellen only interacts with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stormgren, but after a generation he reveals himself and his fellow Overlords to mankind. Karellen's attitude toward humans is never one of superiority or contempt, despite the Overlords' immense technological and intellectual achievements. Karellen (and his fellow Overlords) actually seem to view the humans with pity. They can identify with humans such as Stormgren and George Greggson, humans who are still flesh-and-blood creatures like themselves. But Karellen also knows that humanity will eventually be utterly destroyed when this next step is taken, as a generation of human children suddenly become creatures of pure intelligent energy, part of an "Overmind" that criss-crosses the galaxy looking to add more races to its own form. There is something horrible in this, particularly in the way the rest of human society destroys itself while awaiting its children's bizarre armageddon. Karellen is trapped in his role as a supervisor, and it is his job to nudge the human race in the right direction until it reaches the necessary developmental stage. His motivations are simple: he has no choice but to obey the Overmind or presumably suffer some kind of consequences. But Karellen would do the job anyway, if only for the opportunity to examine the process and, perhaps, discover the secret to it. Source: sparknotes.com Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story "Guardian Angel" (published in New Worlds #8, winter 1950), which he expanded into a novel in 1952, incorporating it as the first part of the book, "Earth and the Overlords". Completed and published in 1953, Childhood's End sold out its first printing, received good reviews and became Clarke's first successful novel. The book is often regarded by both readers and critics as Clarke's best novel and is described as "a classic of alien literature". Along with The Songs of Distant Earth (1986), Clarke considered Childhood's End to be one of his favourites of his own novels. The novel was nominated for the Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004. Several attempts to adapt the novel into a film or miniseries have been made with varying levels of success. Director Stanley Kubrickexpressed interest in the 1960s, but collaborated with Clarke on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) instead. The novel's theme of transcendent evolution also appears in Clarke's Space Odyssey series. In 1997, the BBC produced a two-hour radio dramatization of Childhood's End that was adapted by Tony Mulholland. The Syfy Channel produced a three-part, four-hour television miniseries of Childhood's End, which was broadcast on December 14–16, 2015. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science fiction writer, an avid populariser of space travel, and a futurist of a distinguished ability. He wrote many books and many essays for popular magazines. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO award for popularising science. Clarke's science and science-fiction writings earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His science-fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the genre. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–1947 and again in 1951–1953. Clarke emigrated to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956, to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year, he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee. Clarke augmented his popularity in the 1980s, as the host of television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death. Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 "for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka". He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005. Source: Wikipedia

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