April 12, 2005
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SF authors are more often Mormons than any other faith persuasion, and religious themes (usually Judeo-Christian) often provide the backdrop to SF/Fantasy writings. But Chris Schluep, assistant editor at Del Rey, warns against reading too much into the genre:
"It's no secret science fiction is fond of dealing with big ideas—and religion is certainly a big idea so I guess it will always have a place in works of science fiction," he wrote in an e-mail interview. "But to suggest that science fiction is dominated by the Judeo-Christian theme is like saying all music sounds like Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys. It may seem like that is the case sometimes, but the statement is still untrue."
[Read more in the article Other Worlds, Suffused With Religion]
Adherents.com has a link to Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers and their religious orientation (and a whole lot of interesting religion stats). Pretty impressive list, and although it is not exhaustive (obviously), the compiler admits that Sikh and Buddhist authors are very rare. Check it out here.
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