Ten Favorite Theological Science Fiction Novels
(I’m defining “theology” broadly here but “science fiction” narrowly, confining myself to books that have traditionally been packaged and shelved as science fiction, which leaves out, for instance, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, which is plainly science fiction but hasn’t been marketed as such. I’ve arranged this list alphabetically by author.)
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
— December 28, 2020