First, an update from the Colbert Report: "The air date for our David Brin & Aliens piece has moved to - at the earliest - Thursday January 7th. More soon." Ah... show biz.
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p; What God Wants From Us?
In the spirit of the season, I've been getting mail asking that I offer something theological -
even pastoral - for the end of the year. (Indeed, to denote completion of a dismal decade that I first labeled the "naughty oughts.")
Perhaps theology seems a bit of a reach for an astrophysicist and science fiction author. Or, perhaps, those professions uniquely qualify me? In any event, I'll oblige by posting two excerpts from my novels.
The first one is from EARTH (1989), a book that is getting a lot of attention today, for having predicted massive dumps of military and diplomatic secrets in the early 21st century, rattling governments powerless to keep up with amateur cunning and changing values. (Sound familiar?)
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But the excerpt that I chose for today is about a completely different matter. It portrays an argument between two theologians in the year 2038.
(Oh, note that EARTH (now in 20+ languages and a Hugo nominee) pre-dated the World Wide Web, yet was credited with predicting its blogs, tweets and hyperlinks... though my address may seem clunky compared to today's "dot" URLs. Well, you can't get everything right!)
I'll follow with this "theological" excerpt with another one, from my new novel in progress, entitled EXISTENCE.
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GOOD LUCK!
DB