tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post1196835337925754593..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Totalitarian lesbiocracy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-12425329498418449382010-09-11T04:44:34.052-04:002010-09-11T04:44:34.052-04:00The genre does attract some Christian writers -- C...The genre does attract some Christian writers -- C.S. Lewis wrote three works of science fiction, and Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz is unmistakably Catholic. Though a children's novel, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time would be another example.Piero Tozzinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-3858469706863557742010-08-22T10:50:07.473-04:002010-08-22T10:50:07.473-04:00Occasionally a "conservative" science fi...Occasionally a "conservative" science fiction work like this shows up. I remember "Love Conquers All" by Fred Saberhagen in the early 70's -- perhaps the only anti-abortion science fiction novel ever written. But they are anomalies. Science fiction is basically fiction about science. The people who write it are basically geeks in love with science. They are propagandists for science. Masturbatory tributes to science are their revenge for not having made the high school football team.<br /><br />Even the "dystopian" science fiction novels usually oppose science with some phony opponent like "better" science, science in league with magic, etc. When religion, especially the hierarchical, ecclesiastical sort, opposes science in fiction, it automatically becomes Galileo vs. the Inquisition. That should tell you all you need to know about science fiction.<br /><br />As a young man who did not play on the high school footbal team (baseball, and not very well), I developed a taste for science fiction and read a boxful of those old Ace double-sided novels in the sixties. They provided a clunky counter harmony to V2 and the general degradation of the times. There were a few very good writers among the many hacks -- Phillip K Dick, Robert Silverberg, Thomas M Disch -- but not a recognizably Catholic or even Christian viewpoint among them.Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.com