[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 The Golden Age of man is definitely not a theme in Halo to relate to humanity, there's always some kind of war going on which is driving us to extinction. So what? It's a giant alien ship hovering over Earth as its protector, it's the same thing as Childhood's End. The exact same framework, we just don't know the substance yet - but that doesn't stop it being the same. [quote]So the only things we have are: The Golden Age of man (A setup for post-apocalyptic stories) Space (The setup for ScyFy stories) And some sort of Alien Artifact (Also, the setup for many ScyFy Stories - Halo anyone?)[/quote] When you say "the only things we have", what we have there are the [i]major themes[/i] that form the premise of the story based entirely off Clarke's novel. Again, 3 "similar items" which are [b]major themes which make up the premise of the entire story[/b]. The same way that Halo is a direct rip off of Niven's Ringworld, the same way that Mass Effect is an amalgamation of the tropes of just about every sci-fi universe out there.[/quote] I don't quite think you understand the words you're using. Nor do I really think you understand what you're saying. An alien ship, and an Apocalypse are HARDLY ripping off the major overarching themes of some vaguely similar book. You really don't understand what "ripping off" means... Similar themes DOES NOT mean they're copying the ENTIRE STORY as you said in your original post. So there's really nothing more to say to you. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CoRaMo [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] GrandmasterNinja [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Grateful Zebra [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 Arthur C. Clarke's 'Childhood's End'[/quote][i]Runs off to buy this book.[/i][/quote] Quickly downloads PDF[/quote][i]Checks out book at library[/i][/quote] ...library?