Clarke thus manages to transform mythic fantasy into alien reality while maintaining the "sense of wonder" inscribed in the original figure. I want to concentrate in this essay on two other texts ...

being a family of vampires, can put up with a lot of nastiness but not Aunt Olga. Blunder, the pirate, has his own problems in the shape of Captain Roger Jolly, and a ship full of aliens ...

Vampires have always been alien to the world of the living, that's why they are also referred to as the undead. But now their alien nature has embraced a new dimension, a more contemporary image. The ...