<P> It is appropriate that Edward James chooses a story by Arthur C. Clarke to make the point . One critic is of the opinion that Clarke "has dedicated his career to evoking a "sense of wonder" at the sublime spaces of the universe ..." Editor and SF researcher Mike Ashley agrees: </P> <P> If there is one writer whose work epitomizes that sense of wonder, it is without doubt, Arthur C. Clarke . It's almost impossible to read any of his stories or novels without experiencing that trigger - moment when the mind expands to take in an awe - inspiring concept...It's there in his novel's Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, Rendezvous with Rama and his short stories "The Star", "Jupiter V" and "The Nine Billion Names of God"--possibly the definitive "sense of wonder" story . </P> <P> Kathryn Cramer in her essay' On Science and Science Fiction' also explores the relationship of SF's' sense of wonder' to religion, stating that "the primacy of the sense of wonder in science fiction poses a direct challenge to religion: Does the wonder of science and the natural world as experienced through science fiction replace religious awe?" </P> <P> However, as Brooks Landon shows, not all' sense of wonder' needs to be so closely related to the classical sense of the Sublime . Commenting on the story' Twilight' by John W. Campbell he says: </P>

I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me meaning