sci-fi borne out of religious trauma

sometimes you read a sci-fi book and it's obvious the author has been wrestling with some stuff.

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last updated June, 2026

6 books

Hell is the Absence of God

Ted Chiang

Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

Orson Scott Card

Omphalos

Ted Chiang

Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)

Peter Watts

The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

Dan Simmons

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Dan Simmons

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obsessed with this list thank you

your taste (insert brain to brain communication reaction image)