XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.religion.christian.episcopal   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:42:25 UTC, "- .. --  Tim    .-."   
    wrote:   
      
   > Steve Morrison wrote:   
   > > Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > >> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:33:01 -0700 (PDT),   
   > >> claire.easthope@ntlworld.com wrote:   
   > >>> On 27 Mar, 21:18, admin  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>>> any  thoughts?  is  scifi incompatible  with religion (   
   > >>>> christianity??)   
   > >>   
   > >> No.   
   > >>   
   > >> C.S. Lewis (a Christian) wrote scifi.   
   > >>   
   > >> as did Arthur C. Clarke (probably a Buddhist).   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > And Walter M Miller, Jr. (a Catholic). Though Clarke did leave   
   > > instructions that there be no religious rites at his funeral; he   
   > > seems to have become antireligious in his later years.   
   > >   
   > > And add Ursula K. LeGuin, whose fiction is suffused with Taoism.   
   >   
   > Isaac Asimov was Jewish, I think?   
   >   
   > Tim.   
      
   Definitely, but he was very far from religious. Though he did write a   
   rather lovely story about a man in New York who encounters his   
   great-grandfather; I think he said he wanted to write a story as Jewish as   
   some of Anthony Boucher's were Catholic.   
      
   Now did he mention Boucher or was it somebody else? Anyway, Boucher was   
   another quite specifically Christian sci-fi writer. Perhaps he went a bit   
   far with _Rocket to the Morgue_, a combination of mystery and sic-fi,   
   _plus_ a nun who's a female Father Brown; but it's entertaining, and   
   provides an alternative to Holmes's Law. (When you have eliminated the   
   impossible...) And his contribution to the history and economy of sci-fi   
   is immortal legend, so long as one also mentions the Invisible Man, J   
   Francis McComas.   
      
      
      
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   Dan Drake   
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