Does anybody know any religious sci-fi writers who are good ?

I know Orson Scott Card & CS Lewis anyone know any other good christian/religious writer of sci-fi/fantasy ?

Dante Milton and Bunyan count as fantasy too and they sure are good.

Thanks

Religious fantasy?? I don't know of any that were written recently, sorry.

Why must they be religious writers? fantasy is fantasy no matter who writes it.

Stephen R. Lawhead writes Arthurian/Celtic-flavored Christian fantasy.

Gene Wolfe's work isn't overtly Christian, but stuff like the Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun definitely contain some Christian themes.

Edit to add: Frank Herbert's Dune series isn't at all Christian, but is well worth reading for the great commentary on the sociopolitical aspects of religion.

Check this link, it gives a list of writers and shows their religious affiliation:

Famous Science Fiction Authors - Page 1

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Lawhead is OK and definitely Christian as posted by gnombient. Your local Christian bookshop will have a limited selection of his stuff and probably others which you can browse.

I personally rate David Gemmell as one of the best. It is fairly bloodthirsty but there are definite themes there which are very powerful and very close to Christian. I don't think he was a Christian but I hope he was as he died recently.

If you just want fantasy without too much magic then Anne McCaffery's early books (e.g. the Dragon series) were excellent and fairly safe.

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I've read several stories from Arthur C Clarke that would seem to suggest he was religious or at one time religious. Not sure on that tho.
(I remember childhood's end having lots of biblical endtimes imagery albeit with a few twists here and there)

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Try Marcher Lord Press. It's a new publisher that only puts out Christian sci-fi/fantasy. I have several of their books and they're all good.

Well depends how religious you are lookin for... the author of Black Red and White is very religious...

simon r green is religious... though you should be careful in some of his newer books he has started bringin up some stuff that might offend people... he has a few characters who are gay in some newer stuff... and on a rare occassion a cuss word here and there... but reading his older stuff its much more religious backed... Try reading, 'Drinking Midnight Wine', 'Shadows Falls', and 'Blue Moon Rising'

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Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz is great in this regard, and many of his short stories have a religious background as well.

Gene Wolfe is another author that comes from a religious background in how he phrases things though I don't know if I'd say that his work is always that edifying since it's so complex and multilayered as to lead to thousands of interpretations. The stories definitely have more meaning to a Christian, but there is almost always an out of "oh well that's not really miraculous at all." Somewhat comparable to the new Battlestar Galactica, except that's probably a bad comparison since Gene Wolfe's a million times more competent at it.

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