Post by caladanman on Feb 13, 2014 4:11:55 GMT -5
Hello, I am wondering if there are any good examples of Christian Science Fiction that involves Indians terraforming new worlds in in as ethnographically accurate a fashion as possible giving that the environment of the planet they colonize is similar or eventually becomes similar to their homeland.
I am halfway through the first draft of a novel I started a year ago that centers on the journey of a depressed chiropractor, from what he thought was a newly independent lunar nation, waking up to a new reality after giving up on his life and estranged family. After a series of seemingly chance circumstances he finds himself stuck in the what he thought was the future and heading off to a recently discovered exoplanet in the Alpha Centuari System with the sole remanding commander of the Last Human Fleet – a woman who is a descendent of officials from the Chinese Underground Church's Back to Jerusalem movement and some Chinese adopted kids moved to SoCal to better study their culture in the 21 century. Once they arrive there they are "rescued" from the AI (their holodoctor) in their ship by a joint force of cloned Amazon warrior women of pure African Ancestry from two tribes (Red and Blue) that were bitterly divided by the time they arrived hundreds of years earlier, and otherwise never speak to each other. They have tried to create dual utopian societies based on opposite and extreme systems of morality but with both using their idea of the master race (pure black and one without any other hominid genes other than Homo Sapiens) and always looked down at any form manual labor. Since they always had a Luddite hatred of robots, they decided to invite several wealthy Kumeyaay tribes near where they lived in Southern California to join them in financing the trip before the world wide dystopian government totally restricted all travel. However, at the time of the split between the Reds and the Blues the Kumeyaay tribes also made plans to leave for the deep desert as soon as they landed many centuries prior to the start of the main story. When lunar chiropractor and the commander of the fleet finally arrive in a village in the Neutral Zone between the Reds and Blues, they realize that they are on a large world and there has to be other inhabitants somewhere out in the desert. They steal some deep desert gear, stage their own escape, get rescued by the major tribe out there and learn how to live as latter day Kumeyaay Indians stuck on a barren exoplanet that never got beyond the initial stages of terraforming, so it seems. They discover that they have finally found the last bastion of free humanity who seems to have a good sense of who God is since their ancestors were the mission Indians of San Diego. If only they can unite the tribes and begin the long fight against oppressors on their planet and eventually the machines on Earth. Machines who have forced desperate humans on Earth to change their lifestyles to become a part of their local ecosystems again, like the original first nations, or die as a part of the single worst genocide of humans ever in the history of the Homo genus all in a rash and out of control attempt to curb global climate change.
I am thinking that this falls in the genre of Christian Science Fiction, but as an unpublished future author, I don't know much about this stuff and even if this story would be considered good enough to be published considering the love for things Amish and romantic in Christian bookstores. Also, it will briefly touch on Old Earth Creationism and subsequently stretch out the years of tribulation (from an Earthly perspective) as well. Which probably result in a book wouldn’t be kosher in some Christian bookstores.
I appreciate any thoughts about this since I have already put in a lot of time between my regular job as a Software Engineer, and a father of two kids adopted from China, on this manuscript.
