Science Fiction & Religion

Religion in sf

The Space Trilogy (or Ransom Trilogy) by C. S. Lewis is a series of Planetary Romances comprised of the novels Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus, 1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945).

James Blish A Case of Conscience (1958)

Walter M. Miller‘s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960).

Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (1962) and The Wanting Seed (1962)

Frank Herbert‘s Dune (1965)

Roger Zelazny and Lord of Light (1967).

Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)

References:

• Blish, James, A Case of Conscience (1958)
• —— Black Easter
• —— The Day After Judgement
• —— Dr Mirablis
• Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange
• —— The Wanting Seed
• Dick, Philip K., The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
• Herbert, Frank, Dune (1965)
• —— Dune Messiah(1969)
• —— Children of Dune(1976)
• —— God Emperor of Dune (1981)
• —— Heretics of Dune (1984)
• —— Chapterhouse: Dune(1985)
• —— Eye (1985b)
• —— ”The Road to Dune” (short story, 1985) in Herbert, Frank (1985b)
• List, Julia,  ””Call me a Protestant”: Liberal Christianity, Individualism, and the Messiah in Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune, and Lord of Light” (2009) in Science Fiction Studies #107, Volume 36, Part 1, March 2009
• Lewis, C. S., Out of the Silent (1938)
• —— Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus, 1943)
• —— That Hideous Strength (1945)
• Miller, Walter M. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960)
• Zelazny, Roger, Lord of Light (1967)