James Nicoll Reviews

As with the previous core lists, here are twenty religious Speculative Fiction Works chosen entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field¹. No implication is intended that these are the only twenty works you should consider².

(sorry about the lack of links. running behind. will try to come back and add them)

• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

• HWJN by Ibraheem Abbas & Yasser Bahjatt 

• A Fine and Private Place by Peter Beagle

• Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

• This Star Shall Abide by Sylvia Louise Engdahl

• The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune

• The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

• “St Ailbe’s Hall” by Naomi Kritzer

• High Deryni by Katherine Kurtz

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle

• The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

• Pennterra by Judith Moffett

• He, She and It by Marge Piercy 

• Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack

• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

• Still Forms on Foxfield by Joan Slonczewski

• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Persons unfamiliar with one or two of the works, congratulations! You’re one of today’s Ten Thousand!

1: There are two filtering rules: 

• Only one work per author per list

• Any given work by a particular author can appear on only one list. A given author may, however, have works on various lists but each instance of their work will be unique. 

2: NO IMPLICATION IS INTENDED THAT THESE ARE THE ONLY TWENTY workS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER.