Insightful thread here. I'm a Fantasy guy, so I'm over here "looking back," as they say, but if you've read my book, you know even there I confront the God figure trope head on. However, the flailing of sci-fi in this regard is, to me, a good development. I think it opens up the arena and shows that the real questions of life and purpose simply will not go away as the once far-flung future rapidly presses in. It's why I think a series like @MichaelFKane's "After Moses," has an open field before it. People still hunger for meaning, for truth, goodness, and beauty. Maybe even moreso, as we see the dark simulacrum of our reach exceeding our grasp.
Insightful thread here. I'm a Fantasy guy, so I'm over here "looking back," as they say, but if you've read my book, you know even there I confront the God figure trope head on. However, the flailing of sci-fi in this regard is, to me, a good development. I think it opens up the arena and shows that the real questions of life and purpose simply will not go away as the once far-flung future rapidly presses in. It's why I think a series like @MichaelFKane's "After Moses," has an open field before it. People still hunger for meaning, for truth, goodness, and beauty. Maybe even moreso, as we see the dark simulacrum of our reach exceeding our grasp.
@plainrunner2 Sci-fi is a Luciferian genre at almost every opportunity. Demonstrably not atheistic.
@plainrunner2 All honestt stories, except perhaps the most banal, will eventually brush elbows with the transcendent. The 'imaginative' genres tend to get there faster...