The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction

New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear to bottom edges, faint soiling to top of text block, bookseller's label on front pastedown; jacket mildly edgeworn, a few tiny nicks along top edge, short puncture/pull-tear at left edge of front panel]. An anthology of 15 science-fiction stories, each chosen to illustrate some basic question about the nature of God, man, and the universe. The stories "provide a new way of looking at religion, and outline its task as redefining man and his universe in terms of the new awareness and complexities inherent in the twentieth century space age." Each story in accompanied by an introductory commentary on the relevant topic: "The Power of the Religious Vision," "The Need to Believe," "The Apocalyptic Vision of the End," etc. The authors and their stories are: William Sambrot ("Night of the Leopard"); Michael Moorcock ("Behold the Man"); Walter M. Miller Jr. ("A Canticle for Leibowitz"); Robert Silverberg ("Good News from the Vatican"); Harry Harrison ("The Streets of Ashkelon"); Wesley Ford Davis ("Ask and It May Be Given"); Tom Godwin ("The Cold Equations"); Theodore Sturgeon ("Dazed" and "The Man Who Learned Loving"); Edward Bryant ("Eyes of Onyx"); Arthur C. Clarke ("The Nine Billion Names of God"); Roger Zelazny ("A Rose for Ecclesiastes"); Robert Arthur ("Evolution's End"); Ray Bradbury ("The Fire Balloons"); James Tiptree Jr. ("And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways"). .