On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Cynewulf wrote:

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Ken Arromdee wrote:

It's named Childhood's End (it's not by me), everyone dies at the end, and
I'm planning to do a sequel.

	Oh yeah, I remember now... and you were gonna name the sequel 
after another Arthur C.Clark novel, right?  How do you do a sequel when 
everybody's lying dead at the bottom of a bloody pit?

You rewrite the ending.  Two people have written alternate endings to it
already.