On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Joshua Bell wrote:
> "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >"Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship 'Holy
> >Mission'.Its continuing mission: to convert strange, new worlds, to seek
> >out new souls and create new Christian strongholds. To boldly Christianize
> >where no one has Christianized before!" :-)
>
> Which is a darned interesting premise for a series.
>
> I'm up to "The Naked God" book in Peter Hamilton's sprawling Night's Dawn
> epic (translation: over 3600 pages, plus I just found a prequel). In it, one
> of the characters is... well... let's just say he's not that far from
> Torquemada meets a B5 Technomage. It's quite easy to imagine a "Catholics...
> In... Spaaaaaace!" series.
Believe it or not, I actually wrote a short piece like this for a history
class in the 8th grade. We were studying the colonization of the New
World by nations like Spain and Portugal, and we were assigned a "creative
project" to illustrate the themes and issues involved. I wrote it as a
series of log entries by a junior-level priest on a spaceship sent to
proselytize the galaxy.
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
"The ego that sees a 'thou' is fundamentally different from an ego that
sees an 'it.'" -- Joseph Campbell
