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sigerson ([personal profile] sigerson) wrote2007-10-02 04:17 pm

pondering paper topics

Do any of y'all know of speculative fiction/scifi/fantasy novels that involve multiple faiths? I seem to be able to name ones that have One Big Church but an imagined world with multiple faiths isn't quickly jumping to mind. I must be missing something.

ETA: Wow. I must have had my brain turned off not to remember Small Gods. Thank you guys so much for these! (Now I have new reading material that doesn't involve the word "discourse"!)

[identity profile] kouredios.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Existing-in-real-life faiths? Or faiths they built as part of their world-building?

The one that jumped into my mind is Dan Simmons' Hyperion series. It has Catholicism, reimagined, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism, as well as created faiths for the particular world.

I'm a big fan of A Song of Ice and Fire as well...