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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 12pt;">The "Winston P. Sanders" who wrote "The Word from Space" was actually Poul Anderson using a pseudonym that he whimsically derived from "Winnie the Pooh".
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<div>Fred Lerner<br>
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<div id="divRpF188781" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> sfcc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu [sfcc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu] on behalf of Melissa Conway [melissa.conway@ucr.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 04, 2012 3:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michele R Combs; SFCC@lists.ucr.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SFCC] SF research question on Jesuits in Space<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Michele,</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I found this on the internet:</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_jesuit.html" target="_blank">http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_jesuit.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Patricia Anthony<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>God's Fires</i></b>. New York: Ace Books (1997)<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[During the Portuguese Inquisition, the crash-landing of a space ship presents a devastating moral dilemma when the Jesuits capture and imprison three beings, who escape the crash, and must confront the question about who or what these
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<p>Pg. 77: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"<i>Porra!</i> Am I not worthy? I have been damned by sniveling Dominicans and... Cistercians; and yet before each battle Jesuits petitioned God for me. What sort of father are you, who would turn his back on a son who disobeyed Rom for
you, who slaughtered Spaniards when you asked? Damn you Jesuits to Hell for serving the Holy Office. For leading this country from one war to another..."<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>A Case of Conscience</i></b>. (1958)<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a classic and important pioneering work in modern religious-themes science fiction. A variety of religious issues are explored in this about a
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<span class="klink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:blue; text-decoration:none">Jesuit priest</span></span></a> who gradually comes to believe that a planet full of intelligent, rational lizards is actually of Satanic origin.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Earth</i>. New York: Bantam (1990)<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[Jesuits are mentioned only in passing.] Pg. 208: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At minimum you've drawn an intriguing sophistry to delight your fellow Franciscans. And those neo-Gaian Jesuits, if they haven't thought of it already.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The two central religious groups portrayed in <i>Dune</i> are the Fremen (Zensunnis), who are based to some extant on Muslims, especially Sufis, and the
<b>Bene Gesserit</b>. "Gesserit" may be a transformation of "Jesuit." There are many obvious similarities between the powerful Bene Gesserit order and the Jesuit Society of Jesus. The appendix section detailing religious history of the far-future setting in
the novel specifically cites Islam and <a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_jesuit.html" id="KonaLink7" target="_blank">
<span class="klink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:blue; text-decoration:none">Catholicism</span></span></a> as important predecessor religions of the future religious environment.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span class="klink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:blue; text-decoration:none">Jehovah</span></span></a></i></b>. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co. (1994)<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the main characters in the book is Thomas Ockham, of the Society of Jesus. This is a very well-developed character, playing the role of the religious seeker in this novel about an expedition to retrieve a giant corpse from the Arctic,
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2059-2060<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is one of most popular SF novels in recent years to explore religious themes. The "Sparrow" is famed as being the "Jesuits in Space" novel. It involves a Jesuit expedition to the first extraterrestrial sentient society that humans
encounter. The author read dozens of biographies by current and former Jesuits in preparing to write this novel.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>"The Word to Space"</b> (first published 1960). Reprinted in Mayo Mohs (editor),
<i>Other Worlds: Other Gods: Adventures in Religious Science Fiction</i>. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1971)<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is yet another story with a Catholic clergyman/linguist. Radio transmissions from the alien world Akron are detected from Earth, and scientists are excited to learn for the first time about an alien culture. Until, that is, the informative
broadcasts are replaced by endless Akronite religious propaganda. A Jesuit linguist solves the problem for Earth and manages to do some reverse missionary work at the same time.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p>To be added in more detail: "The Star," one of science fiction grandmaster Arthur C. Clarke's most famous stories. The narrator is implied to be a Jesuit in this story about spacefarers far from Earth who discover the actual Star of Bethlehem.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Melissa</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: sfcc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu [mailto:sfcc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu] On Behalf Of Michele R Combs<br>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:00 PM<br>
To: SFCC@lists.ucr.edu<br>
Subject: [SFCC] SF research question</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hello Collective Wisdom --</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I'm hoping that some of you may be able to help me with this. As many of you probably know, Mary Doria Russell's novel The Sparrow has a Jesuit as the main character. The short story "The Star" (by Arthur C. Clarke) features a chief
astrophysicist who is a Jesuit priest.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">What I'd like is to find any/all other examples of, well, let's call it "Jesuits in Space" for lack of a better term. Does anyone know of others?</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks --</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Michele</p>
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