The 10 Best Science Fiction Stories About Religion

Gabriel Mckee let me know about SF Gospel's list of the 10 best SF stories about religion, which is really just advertising for his book The Gospel According to Science Fiction: From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier, but I'll let him off because it's quite an interesting list and I was looking for Christmas stories and this is sort of close. I've only read the Asimov story, so I can't comment on the others.

A couple of SF novels I've read that deal explicitly with religion come immediately to mind:

• A Case Of Conscience by Jame Blish, which I thought was boring.
• The Sparrow which is truly brilliant and the not quite as good Children Of God, both by Mary Doria Russell.

It should be noted that I read the The Sparrow and Children Of God before I read A Case Of Conscience which may have some affect on my opinion of the latter.