The Ark in Space Salmon of "SFX" rated the serial four and a half out of five stars, calling it "brimming with confidence". Salmon wrote that the concept of the Wirrn were so terrifying that the poor effects did not matter. In an analysis of apocalyptic themes in "Doctor Who", academic Andrew Crome highlighted the explicit religious influences on the writing of "The Ark in Space". He considered the eponymous Ark to be an analogue of the Biblical story of Noah's Ark, the ancient flood myth related in the Book of Genesis, and that the naming of the Nerva Beacon commander as Noah was
Noah's Ark (book) as "neither particularly suited to children nor eloquent in itself." For "Noah's Ark" Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration and the 1982 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books (paperback). Noah's Ark (book) Noah's Ark is a picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977. The text includes Spier's translation of "The Flood" by Jacobus Revius, a 17th-century poem telling the Bible story of Noah's Ark. According to "Kirkus Reviews", the poem comprises sixty three-syllable lines such as "Pair by pair" (in translation). "Without revising or even enlarging on