Waterlog

[truepenny]

TIME: 24 min.
DISTANCE: 3 mi.
TOTAL: 58.6
SHIRE-RECKONING: We're in the Marish.

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Lecture 20: Science Fiction and Religion. No.

Comments

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

"No?" That's it? "No?"

I don't get to read the thoughtful and well-informed rant?

Sigh.

[the-glow-worm.livejournal.com]

Oh come on. This sounds amusing.

curiosity killed the cat

[jinglechelle.livejournal.com]

Stranger in a Strange Land
Dune
Canticle for Leibowitz
Parable books (Octavia Butler)

Re: curiosity killed the cat

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

One for four.

He talked about Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker, Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star," with drive-by mentions of Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and C. S. Lewis. And a lengthy discussion of A Canticle for Leibowitz.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

There's not even anywhere to begin.

Honestly.

He lost me about the time he announced that science fiction can use religious themes to make moral and spiritual points. As if, you know, this was something clever and special that SF writers had thought up all by themselves instead of, oh I don't know, the BACKBONE of the frigging Western canon?

*ahem*

It was all downhill from there.