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Fortinbras Armstrong

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6. One problem with science fiction WRT religion
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 03:33 PM
Oct 2014

Is that all too many SF authors don't know much about religion. Blish was theologically literate, and Walter Miller (writer of A Canticle for Liebowitz) was as well. Poul Anderson's "The Problem of Pain" (in The Earth Book of Stormgate) is another example of good religious SF. But, for example, David Weber's At All Costs shows a basic misunderstanding of how the Catholic Church changes dogma.

I shall do no more than mention Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which are frankly atheistic (the Christian God puts in a brief appearance, as a drooling, senile fool). Admittedly, it's fantasy, not SF.

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Yes God created them. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #1
I think so too. Thav Oct 2014 #2
If yes, that God created them Beringia Oct 2014 #3
There's a good science fiction novel on this, Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2014 #4
It does discuss the same things Beringia Oct 2014 #5
One problem with science fiction WRT religion Fortinbras Armstrong Oct 2014 #6
And yet, His Dark Materials is very spiritual in many ways Lydia Leftcoast Nov 2014 #7
I have read His Dark Materials Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2014 #8
one could be led heaven05 Nov 2014 #9
Well, if He created everything, then yes. Frizzy Fighter Nov 2014 #10
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