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Religious Science Fiction Books

Original List by Crowd: Religious Science Fiction Books

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A theme in science fiction just as much as it might be treated as a specialized subgenre (think Christian SF). Religion as a power force on mandkind h... more

Criteria: science fiction where religion plays a key part of the story, the setting, or the characters. Religious science fiction doesn't just feature religion in it, but the religion often drives the vehicle of the plot and story

Reference: http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/religious-science-fiction.php
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A Canticle For Leibowitz
A "religious" science fiction work that's transcended the...
Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Awards Won:1961 HUGO
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Dune
Frank Herbert
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Awards Won:1965 NEBULA, 1966 HUGO
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The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
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Awards Won:1997 BSFA, 1998 CLARKE
Award Nominations:1997 CAMPBELL
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Childhood's End
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Stranger In A Strange Land
Heinlein's musings on the whole messianic theme...
Robert A. Heinlein
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Awards Won:1962 HUGO
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Hyperion
Dan Simmons
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Awards Won:1990 HUGO, 1990 LocusSF
Award Nominations:1990 BSFA, 1992 CLARKE
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Out Of The Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis's science fiction version of "chronicles of Nar...
C. S. Lewis
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Lord Of Light
Roger Zelazny
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Awards Won:1968 HUGO
Award Nominations:1967 NEBULA
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Book Of The Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
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A Case Of Conscience
James Blish
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Awards Won:1959 HUGO
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Behold The Man
Michael Moorcock
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Nine Billion Names Of God
Arthur C. Clarke
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Endymion
sequel to Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion Books. Religion is o...
DAN SIMMONS
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Award Nominations:1997 LocusSF
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Years Of Rice And Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Anathem
Neal Stephenson
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Awards Won:2009 LocusSF
Award Nominations:2008 BSFA, 2009 HUGO, 2009 CAMPBELL, 2009 CLARKE
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Parable Of The Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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Award Nominations:1994 NEBULA, 1995 LocusSF
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Valis
Philip K. Dick
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Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer
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Award Nominations:2001 HUGO, 2001 CAMPBELL
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Inferno
Larry Niven
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Award Nominations:1976 NEBULA, 1976 HUGO
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Deus Irae
Philip K. Dick
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Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
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Awards Won:1992 NEBULA, 1993 HUGO, 1993 LocusSF
Award Nominations:1993 BSFA, 1993 CLARKE
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Blue Earth
Jeff Stover
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The Divine Invasion
Philip K. Dick
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Award Nominations:1982 BSFA
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Job A Comedy Of Justice
Robert A. Heinlein
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The Godmakers
Frank Herbert
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Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
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Gather Darkness
Fritz Leiber
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Project Pope
Clifford D. Simak
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Award Nominations:1982 HUGO, 1982 LocusSF
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Destroyer Of Worlds
Larry Niven
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Too Like The Lightning
Terra Ignota
Ada Palmer
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The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
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The Vitanuls
John Brunner
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The Android's Dream
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Forbidden Sanctuary
Richard Bowker
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The Star
Cynthia Miller Lovell
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The Omega Point Trilogy
George Zebrowski
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A Romance Of Two Worlds
Marie Corelli
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God Game
Andrew M. Greeley
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The Way Of Cross And Dragon
George R.R. Martin
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The Book Of Skulls
Faye Dowling
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Award Nominations:1972 NEBULA, 1973 HUGO, 1973 LocusSF
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The Streets Of Ashkelon
Tony Aspler
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The Fifth Sacred Thing
Starhawk
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Left Behind
A straight out extrapolation of the world's "end time even...
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Battlefield Earth
THE science fiction BOOK that founded the basis of the entir...
L. Ron Hubbard
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By: Anonymous
2014-11-26 03:35:09

I understand that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However, if you do not rank Dune, Hyperion, and Childhood's End, in that order as the best of the best you need to keep reading. They stand head and shoulders above the rest on this list. Behold The Man, A Year of Rice and Salt, seriously. Kim Stanley Robinson is a preachy, smug, and boring writer. I ask anyone to read all three of his Mars trilogy and then, be honest, NOT be glad when its over. Micheal Moorcock's book is a good entry, but when compared to my top three, it pales in comparison.