Religion in science fiction : the evolution of an idea and the extinction of a genre /
Religion in Science Fiction investigates the history of the representations of religion in science fiction literature. Space travel, futuristic societies, and non-human cultures are traditional themes in science fiction. Speculating on the societal impacts of as-yet-undiscovered technologies is, aft...
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2014
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 London ; New York : 2014 |
| Series: | Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Defining religion
- A cognitive anthropology of narratives
- Defining genre science fiction
- The Raw Materials of Science Fiction
- Poe: Another mother?
- Science fiction on a desert island
- U- and dys-topias
- The fatherhood of Mary Shelley
- H.G. Wells' social speculations
- Olaf Stapledon: "The last Victorian"
- Walter Kateley, "The Fourteenth Earth" (1928)
- Fred Barclay, "The Troglodytes"(1930)
- Arthur Jones, "The lnquisnion of 6061" (1933)
- Isaac Asimov, "Trend's" (1939)
- Robert Heinlein, ''If This Goes On -" (1940)
- L. Sprague de Camp, "Ultrasonic God" (1954)
- Lester del Rey, "Into 'Thy Hands" (1945)
- Arthur C. Clarke, "Childhood 's End" (1953)
- Walter MiUer, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1959)
- Leigh Brackett, "The Long Tomorrow" (1955)
- George Stewart, "Earth Abides" (1949)
- James Blish, "A Case of Conscience" (1958)
- Fritz Leiber, "When the Change-Winds Blow" (1954)
- Roger Zelazny, "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" (1963)
- Robert Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1991)
- Frank Herbert, "Dune" (1993)
- Ray Bradbury, "The Messiah" (1973)
- Lawrence Manning , "The Man Who Awoke" (1995)
- Michael Moorcock, "Behold the Man" (1996)
- Jack L. Chalker, "Midnight at the Wei/ of Souls" (1977)
- Piers Anthony, "Incarnations of Immortality" (1983-1990)
- James Morrow, "Only Begotten Daughter" (1990)
- Theodore Sturgeon," Godbody: (1986)
- Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead" (1986), "Folk of the Fringe" (1989)
- William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, "The Difference Engine" (1990)
- David Weber, "Honor of the Queen" (1993)
- Octavia Butler, "Parable of the Sower" (1993)
- Mary Doria Russell, "The Sparrow" (1996)
- The Extinction of SF (or, at least, gSF)
- The social use of narratives
- Memory
- Humor
- Whitehouse's Modes Conclusion