religion and SF/F

[rm]

Okay, as I finish up the Valentine's Day column, I think I want to look at religion in SF/F. This is probably my personal favourite obsession in SF, so Ia m also largely asking for a reading list here. Dune, the Kushiel books, those creepy out-of-print Edith Friesner books (Psalms of Herod/Sword of Mary), and Mists of Avalon (again), HDM (again), Narnia (duh), Aestival Tide (how could I forget The Chruch of Jesus Christ Cadillac?), The Country of Last Things (ah, suicide cults) all spring to mind in pretty radically different ways.

There's also something I keep meaning to read that I just forgot the title of, about a space mission gone horribly wrong and the only survivor is a surly priest who had been sexually tortured and won't talk -- what the hell is that book again? I really need to read it like this week.

So what have you got for me with intense use of religion from our world or not?

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[phaenix-ash.livejournal.com]

neil gaiman's american gods. heck, if you haven't read them, get your hands on the whole sandman series as it's completely dependent on the heaven/hell mythos. and what's the cs lewis scifi series? paralandria or something like that? stephen king's dark tower, but that would take you ages and lead you to all kinds of tangental places...oh. and the preacher by alan moore. really. it's wonderfully blasphemous.