(i) At the very end of Poul Anderson's The Game Of Empire, Dominic Flandry offers to fund Fr. Axor's research which is based on a quest for evidence of an extra-solar Incarnation. If successful, Axor would either find or write an account that would extend (what he believes is) the Biblical revelation. However, The Game Of Empire is the last volume to be set in the Imperial period of Technic civilization.
(ii) The titles of James Blish's Black Easter (in memoriam CS Lewis) and The Day After Judgment (quoting Lewis' Screwtape) are self-explanatory.
(iii) In Lewis' The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, we start to read a story and find that we are reading the story but this is a retelling, not a sequel. However, in Perelandra, a Christian is allowed to intervene in a new Genesis on the next human-inhabited planet after Earth.
(iv) In Julian May's Magnificat, Jack the Bodiless suggests that, after two thousand years, Jesus' prayer for unity might be reinterpreted as applying to the imminent metapsychic Unification of mankind.
See also: Fictitious Sequels To The Bible.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Most of what I know about Mormonism came from reading Isaiah Bennett's INSIDE MORMONISM, a detailed review/critique of LDS theology. And I've came across a few mentions of Mormons in Anderson's works. Such as how the Mormons irritated the Avantists of HARVEST OF STARS due to them being so non-conformist.
I think some, like C.S. Lewis and Brother Guy Consolmagno have given us some non-fictional speculations on whether Christ might have become incarnate on other worlds for other races. So Fr. Axox's quest is not as quixotic as some might think.
I am not sure I would like or approve of the metapsychic "Unification" of mankdind speculated about by Jack the Bodiless. To me, based on memory, it smacks too much of of morphing every body into one vast, undifferentiated mass in which the INDIVIDUAL personality, the " I " we all have, is lost. A poor imitation of how Catholic theology conceives the Beatific vision to be--union with God and others without loss of the individual " I ".
Sean
Sean,
The loss of individuality is what the Rebels fear from Unification. However, individuality is preserved and enhanced as the other Milieu races show. Unification is like a perfect marital union or friendship.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Granted, even tho I would still have some sympathy for the Metapsychic Rebels. And I can't help but wonder if Julian May was idealizing this metapsychic unification of intelligent races. Would it REALLY work so well with real people in the real world?
Sean
Sean,
Well, it depends on "metapsychic" powers that do not necessarily exist in our world.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
True, which is why Julian May's SAGA/INTERVENTION/MILIEU books is science fiction, not real HISTORY.
Sean
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