Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site qantel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!qantel!ken From: ken@qantel.UUCP (Ken Nichols@ex6193) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Yellow Press in SciFi? Message-ID: <334@qantel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 15:59:53 EST Article-I.D.: qantel.334 Posted: Mon Jan 14 15:59:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:11:07 EST References: <1253@hou4b.UUCP> <2163@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@qantel.UUCP (Ken Nichols@ex6193) Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA Lines: 29 In article <2163@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) writes: > If you are interested in looking for SF books that > show religion in an intelligent and thoughtful way, I suggest you track > down 'A Case of Conscience' by James Blish, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by > Walter MIller, or 'Behold the Man' by Michael Moorcock. A very interesting > book about religion from a less traditional view is 'Black Easter', also by > Blish, and its companion 'Day ofter Judgement'. An interesting short that > comes to mind is 'The Star' by A.C. Clarke. I wouldn't call any of these > stories pro-religious propoganda, but I also don't believe any of them to > be blatantly anti-religious. Their basic purpose is to look at religion and > make you think about it and I think they are all fair (some more than > others) to religion as a concept. I don't know about the SF books mentioned above, but I do know of a SF trilogy by C. S. Lewis that is quite good. Though religion is not specificaly mentioned, the books have analogies to religion as the base of their story line. I have read them two or three times and they are very interesting. But wouldn't you know it, I'm at work and I can only remember the name of the first book in the trilogy. I will post the other titles later I guess. The first book is called Perelandra. Although some parts of the last book contains what some might call graphic violence, I would suggest this as good reading to any Christian SF fan. ------------------------ Ken Nichols ...!ucbvax!dual!qantel!ken