Worlds Without End
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- If science is becoming our new pagan creed, then it is natural for science fiction and comic books to furnish our new mythology. After all, superheroes already occupied a place in the American cultural landscape akin to that of the Olympian gods and demigods in ancient Greece and Rome. In each case, we tell and retell galactic adventure stories featuring superhuman beings who embody our local and universal concerns.