Wednesday, 6 January 2021

Religion In The Early Technic History

In "The Saturn Game," Jean Broberg was brought up as a Jerusalem Catholic.

In "Wings of Victory," human beings meet Ythrians but we learn nothing about the beliefs of either species.

In "The Problem of Pain," a Christian man from Aeneas interacts with Ythrians of the New Faith.

In "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson," Adzel, a Wodenite, has converted to Mahayana Buddhism while studying on Earth.

In "Margin of Profit," Nicholas van Rijn is Catholic.

In "The Three-Cornered Wheel," human traders contend with an Ivanhoan theocracy.

In "A Sun Invisible," there is no reference to religion.

In "The Season of Forgiveness," the celebration of Christmas enables human traders to make peace between two Ivanhoan factions.

In The Man Who Counts, we learn about Diomedean religion.

And those are the first nine installments in Poul Anderson's Technic History.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

All of which goes to show Poul Anderson, unlike Heinlein and Asimov, took religion seriously and treated honest believers with respect. And he does that even with his gently humorous treatment of UFO religion in "Peek! I See You!"

Ad astra! Sean