Science fiction isn't just for people who want to nerd out over space adventures.

It's a genre of literature that allows us to explore profound ideas through the lens of imaginative worlds.

And what could be more profound than the truth that God created the world and human beings in his image?

But before we jump into today's list of the science fiction novels every Christian should read,

I need to make a distinction between two kinds of science

fiction, hard science fiction and soft science fiction. Hard science fiction focuses on the hard sciences,

like physics and biology, and it's more interested in the technology of the story than the larger

social setting of the story. As a result, hard science fiction tries to be as realistic as possible in its scientific

descriptions. A good example of this is Andy Weir's book, The Martian, which was adapted into a 2015 film with Matt Damon about an astronaut stranded on Mars who asked to use his resourcefulness to survive.

Wire is the son of a physicist and engineer, and he took great pains to research how such a Martian colony would work and what an astronaut would do in such a situation.

So the book is grounded in applicable science.

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channel in the non-fiction section of the library. Now, hard science fiction is more about the science,

whereas soft science fiction is more about the fiction. Soft science fiction discusses science,

but the focus tends to be on the soft sciences like sociology

or even things like philosophy. Star Trek is often criticized for using techno-babel to move the

plot along and avoid explaining how certain technologies work. But that's okay because the value of

Star Trek comes from exploring philosophical ideas through the various races and situations

that the crew of the

enterprise encounters.

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