![]() I have two updates in relation to the Mormon alternate history anthology I’m editing. ![]() ![]() Movies are a different thing entirely.)Ĭontinue reading “The Appeal of Science Fiction for (Some) Mormons” Author William Morris Posted on Categories Criticism, Speculative Fiction Tags Authored by Jonathan Langford, Mormon science fiction 16 Comments on The Appeal of Science Fiction for (Some) Mormons We have a name for the Mormon alternate history mini-anthology (plus submissions update) Yet for all the protestations one hears of simple storytelling with no pretense of oracular or legislative responsibility (Shelley notwithstanding), it is a vocation pursued with remarkable persistence by most of the genre’s writers and never really forgotten by the bulk of its readers. Like most such callings, it is a potential caught mostly in glimpses, seldom if ever fully realized. Science fiction as a genre has a high and holy calling of engaging us in dialogue with science, the future, and technological change (corresponding to fantasy’s calling to engage us in a dialogue with history, mythology, and the unconscious, but that’s a topic for a different essay). ![]() And so I decided that I might as well share… The other day, I woke up and wound up writing - well, this. ![]()
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