[Fai Mao]

Interesting read. Thanks for posting

[allendale]

Both science fiction and religion are means of coping with the anxiety generated by uncertainty and being unable to understand or define the factors that seem to affect the present and future lives of people and events. Both help people cope and on occasion motivate and offer insight.

[TheWriterTX]

Both explore the meaning of life, our purpose, and what lies beyond all this...this planet, this solar system, this universe, this mortal coil.

It is not surprising that sci-fi incorporates elements of religion in subtle ways. Even when it intentionally tries to remove all aspects of God, the results can be dark indeed.

[fishtank]

Messiah of the Cylinder by Victor Rosseau

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6402975-the-messiah-of-the-cylinder

[doorgunner69]

I like sci-fi, hold the religion.

[Ransomed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Wright_(author)

The best Christian sci-fi authors who write explicitly Christian Sci-fi/fantasy in my experience.

Freegards

[algore]

Pervs or not Catholic priests have always served many roles.

Does anyone really want emotional women on a spaceship?

[fishtank]

Somewhen Obscurely by R.P. Nettelhorst

https://www.amazon.com/Somewhen-Obscurely-R-P-Nettelhorst/dp/0977386937

[dangus]

I can’t understand how Pope Francis can praise Lost of the World; it seems to be the antithesis of everything he stands for.

[metmom]

I don’t consider being lumped in with Francis or Obama as “good company” but I have always loved science fiction.

GOOD sci fi that is. There are too many bad ones.

Clarke is a good writer and has good plots but just cannot keep his sexual perversions out of his stories, especially the later ones. I’m not interested in him pontificating at me about sexual mores when I’m reading a sci fi book.

[NWFree]

I did until they went woke

[31R1O]

Hmmm, no mention of A Canticle for Liebowtz. That book was a great fusion of religion and sci-fi.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Good science fiction is real science combined with fictional stories. But what you find with a lot of science fiction is fake science and fictional stories, especially in TV shows and movies. What you find in really, really bad science fiction is authors trying to use science to disprove God, which doesn’t work. Science and religion do not mix on the level that you’re using one to prove or disprove the other.

[ArtDodger]

Considered by many to be the best Sci-Fi story ever written, ‘Who Goes There’, can be found on-line for free. I read it every Halloween.
No conflict between sci-fi and religion here.

[Dr. Sivana]

Do you cringe when you’re watching “Star Wars” and Han Solo says the Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, because a parsec is a unit of distance, not time?

I read an explanation that Solo was bragging that he took the Falcon through a "shortcut" that was far more dangerous than the common path, and that it was a tribute to the Falcon's speed, maneuverability, and his skill as a pilot. Maybe weird worm hole and warp stuff plays into the explanation, too.

[Ellendra]

Do you cringe when you’re watching “Star Wars” and Han Solo says the Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, because a parsec is a unit of distance, not time?

Some of the novels actually explained that. According to them, the Kessel Run requires navigating through a cluster of black holes. A faster ship can skate closer to the black holes, making for a more direct route.

[Angelino97]

Michael Weingrad's famous essay -- Why There Is No Jewish Narnia -- theorizes that Science Fiction is Jewish, Fantasy is Christian. A very interesting read.

To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion. If the former is individualistic, magical, and salvationist, the latter is collective, technical, and this-worldly.

That said, this Catholic never much cared for fantasy. Trolls, elves, dragons, and wizards all seemed silly to me.

[imardmd1]

The Triune God created the universe ex nihilo" (out of nothing). and man's soul with it. Who thinks that he/she can consign both of them back to nothing, not even a memory of them in the consciousness of that which still exists?

(I have stopped reading sci-fi as well as other casual pursuits that showed they have no eternal benefits, not even self-preservation.) Knowing the Resurrected Human and His Will in the real sense is my preferred occupation, not merely only time-consuming profitless activity.

[Nifster]

If you do then you ought to read CS Lewis’s triology. It’s very good

[NetAddicted]

Peruse later.