Being a lifelong fan of science fiction, and recent convert from the hardest of hardcore atheist to the hardest core of the Christian faith, Roman Catholicism, I am qualified to speak about both, and particularly about the role of Christianity in the development of science and of science fiction, and the role of science fiction in the imagination of Christendom.
I submit to your candid judgment that the science fiction story, or, as it is properly called, scientific romance, is the conflux of the roman or romance which was the unique cultural product of the Christian Middle Ages, and the scientific revolution, which was the unique cultural product of the Christian Middle Ages.
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