The Truth is Out There
I thought the most perfect book in the world had been written two years ago when I discovered Allen E. Hye’s book, The Great God Baseball, which explored religious themes in baseball literature. I may have to knock that to second place, however.
Brazos Press (a part of Baker Publishing) has just brought out The Truth is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction. This book does for science fiction what The Great God Baseball did for baseball fiction. The authors, noting that science fiction is the area of popular culture most likely to get tangled up with theology, deal with the ways questions of human origins, sin, and identity are discussed in TV SciFi. They cover six programs: Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Dr. Who, Babylon Five, The Prisoner, and The X-Files.
For those of us who are Star Trek fans (Tyler Williams, I’m looking at you!), this book will be a must read. By the way, did I ever mention to you all that I used to be the director of the project to translate the Bible into Klingon? Yup, it made me a Trivial Pursuit question in the Genus IV edition.
On August 3rd, 2006 at 5:08 am
I saw the burb on this book a while ago (I think it was a Brazos newsletter). It looks quite interesting, though I was never into the Prisoner or Dr. Who much.
And the Klingon translation project — what can I say but buy’ ngop!
On August 23rd, 2006 at 8:29 am
What I’d really like to see is a translation of [the recovered text of] The Orange Catholic Bible into Klingon. That would be news!
Keep it real…