Anyone know of any Christian science fiction?

Question

just a passing thought about what it could be like; as there are some great takes on religion in science fiction, I was wondering if SF was a genre discouraged by the Church,etc, or not.

answer man-of course-thanks, I knew I was forgetting something obvious as i wrote,

Answer 1

All the "Left Behind " series are Sci Fi.

Answer 2

Yes, C S Lewis was my thought too, although I read Out of a Silent Planet and Perelandra and I found them almost sexist. Generational thing, I guess - those books were written a long time ago now. Tolkein doesn't have any action for girls either, (although he doesn't come out and say that they should stay home.) I don't think you need to seek out 'Christian SF' to find 'Christian values' - a great deal of SF is full of writers with strong empathy and ethics - and some of them are even Christians though they don't advertise....

Answer 3

Well a book I still enjoy reading over the years is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. She wrote many other books as well. The closest I ever found to that book was the Celestine Prophecy although that book did not have any science fiction in it.

Answer 4

There's plenty of it. Here's a recommended reading list from a group called Christian Fandom:
http://www.spectacle.org/396/scifi/pavlac2.html

And here's the Wikipedia article on Christian science fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_science_fiction

Answer 5

I'm going to say that it is likely discouraged by churches because:
a) Other lifeforms from space is most disagreeable to religious folk, and...
b)A lot of sci-fi involves Gods actually being aliens, and getting the crap beaten out of them by our heros.

Answer 6

Philip ok. Dick is my in demand...i admire the gap opera stuff now and lower back (pretty Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles), however the ten e book series stuff somewhat does not charm lots to me...i've got examine the 1st 2 books of Donaldson's Thomas Covenant (in spite of the incontrovertible fact that consistent with danger it somewhat is extra fable than sci-fi) and desperate I wasn't loopy approximately that stuff, and so it consequences my options down the line. Lethem and Richard ok Morgan are great, and that i've got enjoyed a great sort of Silverberg's stuff. of direction, Heinlein would desire to be the final - a very loose area opera (in that it in general happens in the alternative universe he's created) yet constantly somewhat reliable "problematical SF". i've got very vast on the unique famous guy or woman Trek series, and one in each of my in demand comedian e book series grew to become into the sweetness comics line of "2099 thoughts", the place they invented a international circa 2099 advert and then thrust superheroes in it with twists that contemplated the international they created. EDIT: Filida is nice, look into Octavia Butler's KINDRED...it somewhat is a few black woman who will become unstuck in time, and shuffles lower back and forth between present day circumstances and the time of the slaves. She has some white blood in her background, and it seems she would desire to enable her great-great grandmother to be raped with the aid of the slave-grasp in the different case her very own existence is in jeopardy...i could not positioned the e book down.

Answer 7

Left Behind series is Fantasy, but if you know anything the book stores always put SciFi/Fantasy in the same category.

Answer 8

Google CS Lewis.
He wrote quite a bit.

Answer 9

Some might say the Bible is science fiction but that would be wrong as it would most likely fall under the fantasy or riddle section.

Answer 10

Christianity is fiction.