List of Religious Ideas in Science Fiction - Messianism

Messianism

• In Frank Herbert's Dune, Paul Muad'dib becomes a prophetic messiah to the Fremen when his mental training and the drug/spice melange allow him to directly perceive time and space.
• In Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein, Valentine Michael Smith becomes a messiah figure to some of the general population of the earth. Raised by Martians, he turns their Martian philosophy into a human religion.
• When the Sleeper Wakes (1899) by HG Wells.
• Arthur C. Clarke. 1953, 1956. The City and the Stars. New York: Signet. ISBN 451Q5371095. Pp. 99–100.
• C. S. Lewis. The Space Trilogy series of novels.
• Gene Wolfe. The Book of the New Sun
• John Barnes. 2003. The Sky So Big and Black. New York: Tor. ISBN 0-7653-4222-7
• "He Walked Among Us" 1953 Weird Science #13 -- A spaceman on a four year expedition mission uses his high technology to help the locals (curing a boy with antibiotics, using dehydrated pills to turn water into milk and created food) and defies the local priests. His ship is destroyed by an asteroid resulting in all records being lost and 2,000 years later another ship finds out the spaceman was executed on a rack with it becoming the local's religious symbol and the spaceman the son of their god.