Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy (SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction)
Language: English
Published by Gylphi, 2019
Series: Book 7 of 9 - SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction
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- Title
- Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy (SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction)
- Author
- Clarke, Jim
- Publisher
- Gylphi
- Publication year
- 2019
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- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1780240848
- ISBN 13
- 9781780240848
- Series
- Book 7 of 9: SF Storyworlds: Critical Studies in Science Fiction
For over a century, Science Fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism. The religion is both SF's dark twin and its dirty secret.
In this first ever study of the relationship between Catholicism and SF, Jim Clarke explores the genre's co-dependence and antagonism with the largest sect of Christianity. Tracking its origins all the way back to the pamphlet wars of the Enlightenment and SF's Gothic origins, Clarke unveils a story of robot Popes, Jesuit missions to the stars, first contact between aliens and the Inquisition, and rewritings of the Reformation.
Featuring close readings of over fifty SF texts, Clarke examines how the genre s greatest invention might just be the imaginary Catholicism it repeatedly and obsessively depicts, a faux Catholicism at odds with the religion's own intriguing interest in both science and the possibility of alien life.
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