All fiction, including fantasy and science fiction, is about human experience in different circumstances. The question of the origin and fate of that experience is implicit or explicit. A hereafter is either a myth and a fictional premise or a reality. Many believe the latter. Either way, we are left with the questions of how to live and how to act in the secular world - not only who we are with and who we are against but also what to do about ourselves.
If you remember all this (!) - then you are well prepared to read and enjoy great modern fantasies like:
the Middle Earth History by JRR Tolkien;
the Ransom Trilogy by CS Lewis;
The King Of Ys by Poul and Karen Anderson.
My current reading schedule remains Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series when possible during the day and Ransom, Volume III, in the evening.
May that happen which the gods will.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I have some sympathy for those who say "secularism" has gone too far, that it's wrong to think of mankind as merely naked apes and animals.
At the same time I don't advocate any kind of theocracy, but I do believe the state, any state, would do well to take a more modest view of its powers and rights. Ever since 1914 power has been concentrated far too much in the gov't, any gov't.
Ad astra! Sean
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