Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... explanation . Those men are doomed , however , and only the " children of man " may be saved in this Last Judgment and Resurrection , leaving the continuing struggle between two faiths to rever- berate in the mind of the reader . If the ...
... explanation . Those men are doomed , however , and only the " children of man " may be saved in this Last Judgment and Resurrection , leaving the continuing struggle between two faiths to rever- berate in the mind of the reader . If the ...
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... explanation of mythology ? Why , in an SF novel , does he fill several pages with a spiritualistic seance ? Neither was necessary to the theme it would appear , or to the book as a whole . The Overlords ' parallel with the Christian ...
... explanation of mythology ? Why , in an SF novel , does he fill several pages with a spiritualistic seance ? Neither was necessary to the theme it would appear , or to the book as a whole . The Overlords ' parallel with the Christian ...
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... explanation ( §23 ) . On the amalgamation of the Devil image , in the particular shape Clarke chose for his Overlords , in the late European Middle Ages , see Bernard J. Bamberger , Fallen Angels ( US 1952 ) , pp208- 32 ; Maurice Garçon ...
... explanation ( §23 ) . On the amalgamation of the Devil image , in the particular shape Clarke chose for his Overlords , in the late European Middle Ages , see Bernard J. Bamberger , Fallen Angels ( US 1952 ) , pp208- 32 ; Maurice Garçon ...
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