Let There Be Light - in Literature

In Literature

For works which use the phrase as their title, see Let there be light (disambiguation)#In literature and Fiat lux (disambiguation)

• "Fiat Lux" is also a term that is used in the novel Die Insel des Zweiten Gesichts (1982) by German writer Albert Vigoleis Thelen.
• The English phrase concludes Isaac Asimov's science fiction short story "The Last Question", symbolizing the godlike growth in power of an extremely advanced computer as it creates a new universe from the ashes of a dead one, drawing comparisons and suggesting an explanation for the biblical Book of Genesis.
• Alexander Pope's couplet "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in Night./God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light" is a reference to "Let There Be Light".
• In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo speaks about the importance of daring and writes "That cry, 'Audace,' is a Fiat Lux!"
• One of the three main divisions of the Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz is titled "Fiat Lux".
• "Fiat Lux!" is the activating phrase in the setting of a Ward Major in the Chronicles of the Deryni by Katherine Kurtz.
• The Fiat Lux Agency is the name of Nestor Burma's private detective agency, in the novels written by Léo Malet.