aliens in childhood's end (Score 2)

in childhood's end, a.c.clarke came really close to depicting the aliens as i had always imagined them: detached entities. i wish he had kept them disembodied until the end of the book instead of revealing their physical properties to us. we -- humans, i think, are excessively concerned with the physical, the body. the u.f.o. enthusiasts are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the silvery space ship fleet over the manhattan sky-line. in giving the aliens physical attributes, a.c.clarke falls into the pitfall..