science fiction
UFOs and science fiction in Muslim culture goes well beyond ‘Dune’
By Joseph Hammond — November 19, 2021
(RNS) — In the Middle East, in particular, science fiction became an outlet for political criticism.
‘Dune’ novels draw on Islamic motifs and have in turn inspired Muslim artists
By Joseph Hammond — October 18, 2021
(RNS) — The original series of 'Dune' novels is heavily influenced by ecology and sociology — as well as imagery from the Islamic world and the Middle East.
In ‘The Salvage Crew,’ a Buddhist AI poet seeks aliens and enlightenment
By Bob Smietana — February 17, 2021
(RNS) — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne's new novel was created with the help of an AI poet and a few computer programs — and explores his love of poetry and his Buddhist background.
Lending hope in a pandemic year, Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ makes a comeback
By Kathryn Post — September 25, 2020
(RNS) — The book hit bestseller lists this year 30 years after its publication, not only for its gritty, prophetic portrait of our times but because of its faith in humans to deal with difficult days.
Through sci-fi and fantasy, Muslim women authors are building new worlds
By Aysha Khan — July 16, 2020
In the past few years, Muslim women have quietly taken the speculative fiction publishing industry by storm.
Close encounters of the God kind: Scalzi, others mix religion in science fiction
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 14, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — Religion often makes an appearance in best-selling, Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi’s works of science fiction — including his latest, 'The Consuming Fire.' And that’s not unique to Scalzi.
Mormons in space: Sci-fi or no lie?
By Kimberly Winston — July 26, 2017
(RNS) — Mormons are frequently the creators, subjects and consumers of science fiction — perhaps more than any other faith group.
The metaphysical moment
By Martin E. Marty — January 12, 2017
Many moments ago—two millennia or so—all this was called “Gnosticism,” which never left our cultures, and returns in newly marketable forms.
No ghost in the machine: Anti-humanism of ‘Ex Machina’ makes it the post-Christian film of the year (COMMENTARY)
By Jay Michaelson — May 8, 2015
(RNS) “Ex Machina” is a radically anti-religious movie that challenges the whole notion that human beings are more than meat, have free agency and have some soul that transcends the body and brain.
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