Reading and Religion

I've just finished reading ARCHANGEL, and I enjoyed it.

Religion, in so far as Shinn deals with it, works in (what seems to me) an odd fashion. Basically, there is a god, more like there is THE god, but it's never God, it's always god. Huh.

More interesting than this, at least at this moment, is that it was published by Ace Science Fiction. The most advanced technology available to any of the characters in the novel is precious-metal-working...

This book contains nothing scientific, uses all the god as an explanation for why those around are struck down, and that's kind of it...

Does it follow, then, that religion is not fantastic, but scientific? What kind of sense does that make?

It amuses me to no end that this text which, in my eyes, has nothing to do with science is classified as science fiction; the alternative is labeling it as... fantasy. And that cannot be done, or can it? Can the world of publishing put forth into the continuum (that can't be spelled right, but it checks out with firefox) a mind-blowing industry based on the equitable distribution of knowledge really call a fantasic (in the literal sense) fiction "science fiction"?

I don't know. Went a tidbit off the deep end in that last paragraph.

What's next on the list? REQUIEM FOR A DREAM by Hubert Selby Jr. Seen the movie, dig the movie, now it's time for the book. I've never read anything by Selby before.

But first, my comics from yesterday:
LOGAN #1 (Vaughan and Rizzo)
PAX ROMANA #2 (Brian Hickman)
ZOMBIES VS. ROBOTS #2 (Ashley Wood and Chris Ryall)

Good night.