[redgolum]

Fantasy and sci fi are some of my more favorite recreational reads. However, as I have grown older I have ran into the same things you did. Most fantasy and sci fi are anti Christian. If any Christianity is in a sci fi book, you can bet it is promoted as backward and bad.

I love Tolkien, and have found memories of Lewis. I just wish there were more Christian writers in this field. My brides cousin asked for some recommendations for her son. I can't think of that many sci fi writers who I would want a boy of ten to read.

[eccentric]

Not really for kids, but Kathy Tyer's Firebird trilogy is a pro-Christian science fiction.

[TomSmedley]

Most fantasy and sci fi are anti Christian. If any Christianity is in a sci fi book, you can bet it is promoted as backward and bad.

I am embarassed by the fact that the only big-name writer who present Christian characters in a favorable light is the Mormon Orson Scott Card. Theodore Judson's first novel Fitzpatrick's War also presents Christians who act and think in terms of their faith. Strongly recommend. Clifford Simak was a practicing Christian. "Cordwainer Smith" a high-church Anglican.

OTOH, a contemptible affectation among some writers (Ben Bova, John Barnes) is to spell the name of Deity with a lower-case g. I usually rectify those snide and petty sneers at the eternal transcendent order when I come across them.