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To: EveningStar

As fantasy is included...
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Space Trilogy - CS Lewis ( only Christian SF ever written )


44 posted on 08/01/2015 2:14:08 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: HangnJudge
" As fantasy is included... "

If fantasy is included, one series that left me spellbound, enwrapt in delicious literary bondage, was The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson.

10 books to tell the tale; it is not for the commitment-phobic ;)

77 posted on 08/01/2015 2:57:48 PM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: HangnJudge
Such a list would need to also mention The Hobbit, and Silmarilion.

I am not sure where One Hundred Years Of Solitude would fit in.

82 posted on 08/01/2015 3:00:05 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HangnJudge
The Space Trilogy

I read that and absolutely hated it. the books got progressively creepier, and the last book, That Hideous Strength, just pushed me over the edge. It gave me the willies.

Never again.

89 posted on 08/01/2015 3:09:01 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: HangnJudge
The Space Trilogy - CS Lewis ( only Christian SF ever written )

Excellent read...

140 posted on 08/01/2015 4:34:25 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: HangnJudge

My Freeper handle is from the CS Lewis space trilogy. That Hideous Strength is one of the most prescient books I have ever read. That said, there is a bunch of great Christian sci-fi besides that.

Gene Wolfe, RA Lafferty, the tragic Walter M. Miller all wrote and in Gene Wolfe’s case still write.

Freegards


147 posted on 08/01/2015 4:58:25 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: HangnJudge

The “Infinite Space, Infinite God” sci-fi anthology series is also Christian science fiction.


179 posted on 08/01/2015 7:02:57 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: HangnJudge
You might want to consider the late Charles Williams -- a member of the Inklings, and a first-rate writer of supernatural thrillers.

Look up Castalia House (Vox Day).

John C. Wright is very good.

For non-Christian stuff, Keith Laumer's Retief short stories and novels, and of course, Poul Andersons Polyseotechnic civilization saga (Nicholas van Rijn), and the Dominic Flanders novels.

206 posted on 08/01/2015 10:53:36 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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