Category: Quotes
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Geek Bible — Romans 8:35-39: Encouragement Beyond Time and Space…
“Geek Bible” is a series of posts exploring passages from the Bible that have special resonance for lovers of Christ who are also lovers of sci-fi and fantasy . . . As a young writer, I always liked to put Bible verses at the beginning of my stories. You know, to be extremely clever and…
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QUOTE: Nicholas Meyer on Allegory and Metaphor in Star Trek
At its best, Star Trek appears to function as pop-allegory/pop metaphor, taking current events and issues (ecology, war, racism) and objectifying them for us to contemplate in a sci-fi setting. The world it presents may make no scientific sense but it is well and truly sufficient to lay out human questions for us to think…
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QUOTE: Asimov on religion in sci-fi
. . . it is impossible to write science fiction and really ignore religion. What if we find intelligent beings on other worlds? Do they have a religion? Is our God universal, and is he/she.it their God as well? What do we do about it? What do they do about it? This point is almost never taken up but, since…