Christian sci-fi. Like Christian rock's pale, geeky brother.
Oh, oh, yes! "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis. I don't know if the rest of the trilogy are so astoundingly, mind-numbingly awful and dull because the first one made ne too suicidal ever to want to find out.
My aunt once bought me the trilogy for a Christmas present. I never even completed the first one.
I quite liked the Narnia books when I was very young, but I looked at them again a few years ago out of nostalgia and found them unreadable.
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Oh, I don’t know – I think they are still pretty good* for the most part, with the exception of ‘The Last Battle’ which I thought was incredibly bad and odd when reading as a child, now I just think it’s terribly, terribly wrong. Lewis wasn’t very nice to Susan’s character who is going to hell for liking lipstick and boys.
*By which I mean an enjoyable re-read, there is a lot you could pick Lewis up for (pick your
ism, there are plenty to choose from) but it doesn’t stop them being for the most part still fun to re-read as an adult – the thing that really jars for me is the clumsy mish-mash of mythology, most apparent when Father Christmas turns up in ‘The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe’.
I'm less sure how enjoyable they would be as a fresh read for adults who hadn't read the books as children.