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Page 194
... Clarke's awareness that this choice might be untenable for a work of SF ostensibly for a more enlightened audience ... Clarke did , indeed , want the reader to interpret the Overlords to be devils and the Overmind to be God . Surely each ...
... Clarke's awareness that this choice might be untenable for a work of SF ostensibly for a more enlightened audience ... Clarke did , indeed , want the reader to interpret the Overlords to be devils and the Overmind to be God . Surely each ...
Page 197
... Clarke attempts to present Karellen as the exemplary human being . While he may not be programmed with Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics , the reader is led to believe that Karellen lives up to the high moral and exacting ethical ...
... Clarke attempts to present Karellen as the exemplary human being . While he may not be programmed with Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics , the reader is led to believe that Karellen lives up to the high moral and exacting ethical ...
Page 207
... Clarke is attempting to make use of a seminal literary work . Again , even if he did not directly and intentionally use Paradise Lost , it is Milton's Satan whom Clarke must confront , and John Milton has tradition and the col- lective ...
... Clarke is attempting to make use of a seminal literary work . Again , even if he did not directly and intentionally use Paradise Lost , it is Milton's Satan whom Clarke must confront , and John Milton has tradition and the col- lective ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
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