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CoinOfNote , to random
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It's nearly time for the next Coin of Note ! But first, no-one has guessed the ! I'm beginning to think these are too hard?

Ok this one is an industrious looking coin.
and a ... but from where? And when?

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tokensane ,
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Google image search found this. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces281286.html

Seems to be a 50 pfennig coin from the GDR.

KitMuse , to bookstodon
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I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

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tokensane ,
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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.

tokensane ,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon The Gnome trilogy by Terry Pratchett is SF, and Pratchett has his usual deconstructive fun with religion in it. Their belief in Arnold Bros(est 1905) as God, and the dogmatic insistence that there can be nothing outside The Store is a rich seam, cleverly mined.

tokensane ,
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@rayckeith @KitMuse @bookstodon True, but the OP wanted SF, not fantasy.

tokensane ,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon
Not literature, but "Be Watchful" by Rodney Matthews might fit in somewhere,.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcpECFGXoAAgZfU?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

tokensane ,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon
Not sure if it quite counts as SF, but The Kinship Trilogy by Richard Cowper has strong religious themes.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/83024-the-white-bird-of-kinship

tokensane ,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_(novel) Pavane is an alternative history by Keith Roberts featuring a fight against an all powerful Catholic Church.

tokensane ,
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@KitMuse @bookstodon Earth by David Brin features both Gaia (Earth) worship, and an ironic rebellious sun worshipping cult.

tokensane ,
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@ashtardeza @dsawilson @KitMuse @bookstodon Also Dodge, Or Fall In Hell. Although that's more of a weird Greek creation myth mashup.

ExcessivelyDiverting , to bookstodon
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OPINION: Myth of Mr. Darcy: Tales from a Ukrainian in Britain

https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/22704

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tokensane ,
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@ExcessivelyDiverting @bookstodon Lovely piece. Thanks. Loved "Dr Profiterole"

jalcine , to bookstodon
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From Belly of the Beast regarding The War on Obesity following The War on Drugs.

Confident that the sitting American president has similar bits as a professional segregationist (when it was cool) and a proud co-author of the anti-Black, pro-private-property "Crime" bill of 1994.

These people don't care, haven't cared and can't care: we're not in their orbits.

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tokensane ,
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@jalcine @bookstodon I don't know about the Reagan stuff, but you might like to read this question on Skeptics.SE about the Erlichman quote at the top of the page. It's really not reliable. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/32247/did-ehrlichman-claim-the-reason-for-the-nixon-drug-war-was-to-criminalize-black/33044#33044

Narayoni , to bookstodon
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An astute judge of human nature ain't he?
"And it all meant this: that there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
Vorbis loved knowing that. A man who knew that, knew everything he needed to know about people."
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tokensane ,
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@Narayoni @bookstodon Small Gods is angriest book.

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