In this work, the author treats two types of characters in parallel. Some are real, realistic official detectives, and others are detective characters as formed by the creative thought and talent of the writers.
Zoran Živković, an excellent connoisseur of science fiction, made a selection of Clarke's best stories with the motif of first contact and wrote an extensive text in which he interprets them in detail.
Novica Milić gives Basara the status he deserves - he reads him as a relevant world writer. He "pulls" it out of the bilge of the palanquin and places it on the stage of world literature, where only one thing matters: what and how the writer does with wor