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Holy Sci-Fi! by Paul J. Nahin
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Holy Sci-Fi!

Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect

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Length 10 hours 47 minutes
Language English
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Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists, and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more.

In Holy Sci-Fi!, popular writer Paul J. Nahin explores the fertile and sometimes uneasy relationship between science fiction and religion. With a scope spanning the history of religion, philosophy, and literature, Nahin follows religious themes in science fiction from Feynman to Foucault and from Asimov to Aristotle.

An intriguing journey through popular and well-loved books and stories, Holy Sci-Fi! shows how sci-fi has informed humanityโ€™s attitudes towards our faiths, our future, and ourselves.

Paul J. Nahin has taught at Harvey Mudd College, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Universities of New Hampshire (where he is now professor emeritus of electrical engineering) and Virginia. Nahin has published a couple of dozen short science fiction stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Omni, and Twilight Zone magazines, and has written fourteen books on mathematics and physics. He has given invited talks on mathematics at Bowdoin College, the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tennessee, and Caltech, has appeared on National Public Radioโ€™s Science Friday as well as on New Hampshire Public Radioโ€™s The Front Porch, and advised Bostonโ€™s WGBH Public Televisionโ€™s NOVAย on the script for their time travel episode. He gave the invited Sampson Lectures for 2011 in Mathematics at Bates College.

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Greyโ€™s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

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