(urth) Theological Science Fiction (Was: Silk for calde blog: Wolfethesis)

[David Duffy]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Kieran Mullen wrote:

> Conscience."    An example of 1b is Phillip Farmer's "Mask of Chaos,"

A nice nosology.  Except PJF's _Night of Light_ is 1a and 1b, isn't it?

There *is* one stereotypic story, of course: aliens martyr missionary 
because they think this is the kindest thing to do.  I was recently 
reading Lem's version of this in _The Star Diaries_.

Cheers, David Duffy.