{"id":63,"date":"2015-05-22T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:34:12","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Quantum Thief<\/em>, 2010, by Hannu Rajaniemi is set in a universe of \u201cembodied cognition\u201d where souls can have many minds and many bodies.\u00a0 Mentioned at the beginning, one of the super-powers in the story, the Archon, is tasked with turning the matter of the physical universe into a Prison, \u201cto increase the purity of the Universe.\u00a0 This is what their Father, the Engineer of Souls, taught them to love.\u00a0 This is the way the world is made right.\u201d\u00a0 There is much religion and philosophy within this book to ponder, but you\u2019ll never have time to do that on a first reading because you will be too involved with following the Thief, Jean le Flambeau, as he struggles to escape this prison during a very exciting sci-fi mystery story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quantum Thief, 2010, by Hannu Rajaniemi is set in a universe of \u201cembodied cognition\u201d where souls can have many minds and many bodies.\u00a0 Mentioned at the beginning, one of the super-powers in the story, the Archon, is tasked with turning the matter of the physical universe into a Prison, \u201cto increase the purity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}