@KitMuse@eponaauthor.social It's a little golden-age, but "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny is an excellent hard science fiction book with a heavy religious component. "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" also by Zelazny, and "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison are both top notch as well, and deal with religion through their own very different lenses.
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Whatcha mean by "golden-age"? Of Sci Fi?
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The Golden Age of Sci-Fi is 11-14 years old. :D
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I looked it up, and Wikipedia said 1938-1946. That was obviously wrong though, so I decided 1950 through 1980, beginning with Ray Bradbury and including most of the careers of e.g. Larry Niven, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, etc.
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@KitMuse @bookstodon A couple of Heinlein novels that spring to mind are Job and Stranger in a Strange Land, both of which have religious themes.
Also the science backed religion in the first Foundation novel by Asimov. And Childhoods End by Clarke has some broad cosmic themes to it, although they don't emerge till late in the book.
Edit. Sorry, just noticed you wanted to avoid the Golden Age
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I'll second both of these. "Job" in particular is one of the best direct satires I've seen of authoritarian Christianity. The other weirdly enough is the the Gnostic Gospels; it's an alternate garden of Eden story that's absolutely wild.