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Liberate tuteme ex Excelsior!

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 No.8533

I have a great interest in religion and spirituality, and I love it when fantasy writers, science fiction writers, or any worldbuilding project includes a god or a pantheon of gods in the project. I like seeing what authors do with the concept of a god and the way they interact with the world. Fictional religions which in canon turn out to be incorrect are also quite interesting, showing how the residents of fictional worlds can form religions of their own.

What are your favorite gods, mythologies, and pantheons in fiction? One of my personal favorites and a very popular one is the Lovecraft pantheon, which has influenced some of my own worldbuilding projects.

 No.8535

My favorite in this vein is the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers, "Pantheon? It's just a job," Anthony.

I suppose my favorite author overall for presentation of religious themes in a fictional setting would be Graham Greene. His writing is drenched with in the trenches practicality of religious practice over sanctimonious externalities. Greene tends to show good or evil as being distant bureaucratic echoes of the human condition found throughout the world, and of lesser importance. What really matters is the immediate: the struggle with what is right or wrong.

Greene is extremely good at hitting the reader with the full force of just how wrong a single situation or event can be.

My favorite novel depicting a fictionalized religion is Messiah by Gore Vidal. While fictional, the movement (with punning intentionality) named Cavism is also a nasty satire of Christianity.

My tastes for these varied works may give something of a false impression though. I'm far from being a rabid atheist, but I am also not easily offended. All I can say is I likes what I likes.


 No.8543

>>8533

>What are your favorite gods, mythologies, and pantheons in fiction?

warhammer 40k.

definitely a fun setting.

i like it because there is a little bit of everything, from lovecraft, starship troopers, terminator, alien and so on.

and the fact that it doesn't always take itself seriously also helps.




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