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Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Defining SF
Myth
Science and Religion
Chapter 1
Evolution, Morality and Religion in H. G. Wells
Wells’ Views on the Novel
Evolution and the Church
The Social Contract in a Darwinian World
Religious Myth as a Vehicle for the Inculcation of Moral Values
Chapter 2
Materialism and Mystery: Mixed Myths in Arthur C. Clarke
What Is the Mind? Mechanism, Materialism and Vitalism in Clarke’s Early Novels
Evolutionary Transcendence
Religion, Gods and Men
A Learning Process: Increasingly Materialist Myths and a Consideration of Language in Clarke’s Later SF
Chapter 3
Science Fiction as Truth: Sociology, Philosophy and Theology in Philip K. Dick
Countercultural Revolt in a World of Androids
Interrogating Reality: The Ideas of the Presocratics, Kant and Heidegger in Dick’s Writing
Constructing Theology: New Religious Myths in Dick’s SF
Chapter 4
Resisting Tradition: The Messiah Myth and Authentic Dasein in Frank Herbert’s Dune Series
Human Ecology
Gods and Heroes
Democracy, Education and Authentic Dasein in the Dune Series
Frank Herbert and Science Fiction
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Conclusion
Works Cited
List of Names and Terms
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