Useful little article this: InsideCatholic.com - Science Fiction and the Areopagus: It provides a few pointers at the end to authors, but highlights a reason for giving SF time and attention. From a Christian point of view, it may seem surprising to some, because I suspect that the image of scifi is of varieties of atheist fantasies. However,
"...the astonishing thing is that science fiction and fantasy are absolutely awash in theological speculation. Lots of it is pagan, in the Chestertonian sense. That is, it is an attempt to reach God through the imagination, hampered by the inability to conceive of something truly outside of the created world. The result is a sort of quasi-supernaturalism that acknowledges planes of existence beyond the human, but refuses to entertain the notion of angels and demons."
And the themes that many writers are working with are really important and sometimes a kind of analogical theology. Htt Greenflame.
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