Science-fiction Studies, Issue 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Science fiction |
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... reason in the face of the inexplicable glimpsed on the Overlord's home planet . Only hysterical preachers and befuddled women apparently have any doubts . Yet there is some doubt about reason's power , engendered by the basic science ...
... reason in the face of the inexplicable glimpsed on the Overlord's home planet . Only hysterical preachers and befuddled women apparently have any doubts . Yet there is some doubt about reason's power , engendered by the basic science ...
Page 8
... reason - loving men of the story that , just as our faith in science tells us , everything has a natural explanation . Those men are doomed , however , and only the " children of man " may be saved in this Last Judgment and Resurrection ...
... reason - loving men of the story that , just as our faith in science tells us , everything has a natural explanation . Those men are doomed , however , and only the " children of man " may be saved in this Last Judgment and Resurrection ...
Page 9
... reason for calling itself “ MEPHI ” . “ Clarke seems quite aware of the affinity between alien beings in science fiction and the apocalyptic and demonic imagery of mythological fantasy . By deliberately choosing devil - figures as ...
... reason for calling itself “ MEPHI ” . “ Clarke seems quite aware of the affinity between alien beings in science fiction and the apocalyptic and demonic imagery of mythological fantasy . By deliberately choosing devil - figures as ...
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