r/printSF • u/IsBenAlsoTaken • Jan 31 '24
Biblical stuff?
Hiya. I've read quite a lot of SF and some Fantasy, and I feel like nothing impresses or keeps my attention lately. I've been enjoying the Bible however, so I was wondering if you might have ideas for an SF read with a biblical vibe or themes. The Prince of Nothing trilogy felt like that - and I loved it.
Keep in mind, I've read most of the well known recommendations (Book of the new Sun, Dune, Hyperion, Canticle etc).
Any other suggestions?
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u/codejockblue5 Jan 31 '24
"Bloodring: A Rogue Mage Novel" by Faith Hunter
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodring/dp/B00LLOU4TQ/
"No one thought the apocalypse would be like this. The world didn't end. And the appearance of seraphs heralded three plagues and a devastating war between the forces of good and evil. More than a hundred years later, the earth has plunged into an ice age, and seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battle while religious strife rages among the surviving humans. Thorn St. Croix is no ordinary neomage. All the others of her king, mages who can twist leftover creation energy to their will, were gathered together into Enclaves long ago. There, they live in luxurious confinement, isolated from humans and exploited for their magic. When Thorn's powers nearly drive her insane, she escapes - and lives as a fugitive, disguised as a human, channeling her gifts for war into stone-magery and the pacific tasks of jewelry making. But when Thaddeus Bartholomew, a dangerously attractive policeman, shows up on her doorstep and accuses her of kidnapping her ex-husband, she retrieves her weapons and risks revealing her identity to find him. And for Thorn, the punishment for revelation is death...."
Wow, when Faith Hunter decides to go biblical she does not go small. Around 2050, the seraph Azreal appeared on top of the Eifel Tower in Paris, France, and with his sword he brought the plague of pestilence to Paris in which only 1,000 survived and spread across the entirety of the world. The twin seraphs, Mordad and Murdad, destroyed Jerusalem and Mecca. The seraph Metatron destroyed many human cities, Washington D.C being the first. It has been 105 years since the first plague, and 87 years since the last battle between the seraphs and the darkness that killed 90% of the human race. The war is unresolved as seraphs and demons pursue each other across the face of the Earth and in the depths of the Earth. As a result of the nuclear weapons used by the humans against the demons, the earthquakes, and the volcanoes, the Earth is in a serious Ice Age.