BioBeing

Remember reading some of these I think, but don't remember overt religous tones. Didn't some humans go back in time and end up being their own ancestors... (or am I thinking of something else?)
(btw - Julian is an English male name, not female I wanted to name my son Julian, but my wife wouldn't let me, for reasons now obvious!)

Think I remember "Canticle for Liebowitz -- Walter Miller." too. A made-up religion specifically to gain power is hardly from a theistic perspective

Loved Heinlein too

I used to read a lot of sci-fi when a teenager (I'm now mid thirties). I used to think it was a good way to try and express what type of utopia we (humans) might be able to make. How could it be... Don't think I was particularly aware of the lack of religous overtones then though. Or maybe it just sat well with me because of that lack. Hmmmmm....

CJD

BioBeing asked: "Are there any theist sci-fi authors?"

The unfortunate answer is "yes." A fellow by the name of Tim LaHaye has written several science fiction books about being left behind (watch out for his new book, "My Desecrated Left Behind"). Probably doesn't consider himself a scifi author, but he does consider himself a writer. Damn presumptuous of him, too.

CJD

Ab_Normal

I just reread the Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu series over the last two weeks, which is why I thought of them right away, and most of the characters are Roman Catholic (including two female priests!). There's a fascinating part in Jack the Bodiless where a mother is trying to reconcile a loving God and the existence of evil to her son (before his birth - we're talking about psychics here). Now that I've spent too much time up in the EoG forum, I recognized all her points.

edited because I can't spell today.

The Other Michael

I don't know if Julian is just a nom de plume, but the author is female.

cheers,
Michael

never been there

Great Roman Catholic SF - the dedication is to Mary.

Good enough that I read it at one sitting. It's more like the classic British SF by Wyndham et al. than Star Trek skiffy.

Starboy

Would Sagan's "Contact" qualify as religious SF? Not the movie but the book. I am referring to the last part concerning the messages found in pi. I always thought that was a nice touch and definitely worthy of a supreme being.

Starboy

abe smith

I profoundly regret my evidently-misleading unstated implication (a tautology, that) which c.venom appears, whether seriously or not, to have read as an indictment of ALL women/"atheists's wives". I certainly do not concur w/ anyone's dirting on "women" as a group, nor indeed w/ any dirting on ANY group. I am a nominalist, doan forget; and I (try to) deal only with SINGULAR entities. Mea culpa about my earlier post here; fersher.

The essential cavil, about Darwin's & Twain's wife/wives stands tho. Men, husbands shd "publish & be damned (to them)".