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- Title
Religious Institutions in Spanish Science Fiction.
- Authors
Small, Elizabeth
- Abstract
This article discusses three recent Spanish sf works in terms of their shared focus on the role of religious institutions in social control and the mediation (largely failed) of cultural/alien contact. The stories employ references to Spain's long religious and colonial history, as well as references to present-day conflicts, in expressing fairly bleak visions of possible roles of religious institutions in future human society. In discussing these stories, the article draws connections with major works of English-language religious sf by James Blish, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Subjects
SPAIN; CRITICISM; SPANISH science fiction; RELIGIOUS institutions; SOCIAL control
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2001, Vol 28, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Literary Criticism