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	Messiahs in fiction and fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The idea of a messiah figure has long been an element in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
		Perhaps the earliest use of a messiah figure in fantasy is the mythical figure of King Arthur.
		Lewis wrote the fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia as a parable for the New Testament, to introduce readers to the Christian idea of a messiah; the lion Aslan dies for other people's sins but is reborn, and is part of a trinity.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/m/me/messiahs_in_fiction_and_fantasy.html (780 words)

	Joanna Russ- Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction
		Science fiction is not fantasy, for the standards of plausibility of fantasy derive not from science, but from the observation of life as it is—inner life, perhaps, in this case.
		Science fiction is a positive response to the post-industrial world, not always in its content (there is plenty of nostalgia for the past and dislike of change in science fiction) but in its very assumptions, its very form.
		Science fiction’s emphasis is always on phenomena, to the point where critics can use such phrases as "the idea as hero." I propose that contemporary literary criticism is not the ideal tool for dealing with fiction that is didactic, or for assessing a new and different literature.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/6/russ6art.htm (4338 words)

	Wikinfo \| Messiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An Egyptian messiah is said to have gathered together 30,000 adherents, whom he summoned to the Mount of Olives, opposite Jerusalem, promising that at his command the walls of Jerusalem would fall down, and that he and his followers would enter and possess themselves of the city.
		Unlike these Messiahs, who expected their people's deliverance to be achieved through divine intervention, Menahem, the son of Judas the Galilean and grandson of Hezekiah, the leader of the Zealots, who had troubled Herod, was a warrior.
		He became a prophet of the Messiah, and when the latter embraced Islam he justified this treason, saying that it was necessary for the Messiah to be reckoned among the sinners in order to atone for Israel's idolatry.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Messiah (4097 words)

	messiahs - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about messiahs
		Christians believe that the Messiah came in the person of Jesus, and hence called him the Christ, meaning ‘anointed one’.
		There is a minor Jewish tradition that the Messiah will come when all Jews on earth observe the Sabbath for two consecutive Saturdays.
		Oratorio by George Handel (words selected from the Bible by Charles Jennens), performed at the Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, on 13 April 1742; the first performance in England was at Covent Garden, London, on 23 March 1743.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /messiahs (273 words)

	Messiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Christians consider Jesus to be that Messiah (in Greek Christ), as well as the son of God and a member of the Holy Trinity.
		In Stregheria, Jesus Christ is believed to have been a sort of "evil messiah" or false messiah, while Aradia de Toscano is seen as the true savior who came to free the poor and the oppressed from the bondages of Christianity.
		For the Rastafarians, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was the messiah.
	messiah.iqnaut.net (4577 words)

	Messiahs in fiction and fantasy
		The main character in Dune is Paul Atreides (titled Paul Muad'dib), the messiah of the Fremen people and the "Kwisatz Haderach" (also a messianic figure) of the Bene Gesserit order.
		The classic American superhero, Superman, came to be written as a messiah figure by no later than the 1980s.
		As a Messiah, he can be more identified with Moses than Jesus; he came to Earth from across space in the equivalent of a basket on the Nile.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/me/messiahs_in_fiction_and_fantasy.html (1702 words)

	Messiahs in fiction and fantasy Dune anime Akira fandom Children of Dune The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Messiahs in fiction and fantasy Dune anime Akira fandom Children of Dune The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions Terok Nor Emissary superhero
		In Dune Messiah he wanders into the desert, leaving behind twin newborn children.In Children of Dune, Muad'dib's son Leto Atreides II achieves the same level of prescience as his father, and sees the same Golden Path as the only hope for humanity's survival.
		Gandalf is also a messiah figure; his death followed resurrection (the latter taking place in time for him to rescue his disciples), and his "white," robes after his return from death are parallel to the story of Jesus.
	en.powerwissen.com /lrfYMO3zw1VTucO7jwGkUA==_Messiahs_in_fiction_and_fantasy.html (2236 words)

	Da Vinci: More than fiction : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When in 1938, Orson Welles put on a very realistic radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, the people in New Jersey (where Martian ships were supposed to be landing) fled their homes in droves.
		But the fictional depiction in celluloid was a tangible representation of the divine.
		And whether Brown and his ‘supporters’ admit to it or not, there is something more than pure fiction that seeps through his book/film.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1702709,0035.htm (673 words)

	Messiah
		Messiah is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		As the messiah He has delivered the Christian from the bonds of sin and given to him eternal life.
		The Messiah was promised in the O.T. in the seed of the woman (Gen.
	www.experiencefestival.com /messiah (1020 words)

	How Myth Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One learns in therapy that fantasy is a creative activity which is continually telling a person into now this story, now that one.
		When we examine these fantasies we discover that they reflect the great impersonal themes of mankind as represented in tragedy, epic, folk tale, legend, and myth.
		Fantasy in our view is the attempt of the psyche itself to remythologize consciousness; we try to further this activity by encouraging familiarity with myth and folk tale.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/mythweb99/howmythworks.html (2846 words)

	The Matrix Revolutions
		The trilogy of movies has received the recognition of scholars, cyberpunk and science fiction enthusiasts, philosophy enthusiasts, workers in the artificial intelligence community, and general fans and film fans alike.
		Many are interested in discovering what they believe to be the hidden meanings embedded within the content of three "complex" films that have been recognised to use their scenario to raise questions considered to be of great relevance to modern and post-modern society (see external links).
		Having rejected the system of recycling the systematic errors of the Matrix program (Neo's intended function), Agent Smith is left free to destroy the Matrix and soon the Source/machine city itself, while the pending invasion of Zion means that all life - both human and machine - is facing extinction.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/The_Matrix_Revolutions.php (2886 words)

	What's So Great About Dune?
		While it probably benefited from its early serializations in Analog, the paperback was an immediate hit in the science fiction community.
		By the end of Dune Messiah, he has lost everything, even his sight, and sacrifices himself to the desert.
		These are clues pointing to a layer of meaning underneath the power fantasy and mysticism, one that gets back to the heart of Herbert's simple idea for a long novel.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/dune_intro_991019.html (1520 words)

	NEO, NADER, NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR: CITIZENSHP
		The mythic fantasy of The Matrix is not a literal speculation of a possible future.
		As science fiction, it's weakest idea is the one given for the existence of the virtual world itself.
		King or Messiah, the point is that they lived and suffered as humans, and did so, even unto death, in the service of other humans.
	www.metaphoria.org /ac4t0209.html (1246 words)

	Kit Gleave - Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer - Lulu.com
		My first full-length novel "The Stone Messiahs", told in two parts, "A Child of Two Worlds" and "The Circle", is the story of a lost human history and of those whose struggle it is to rekindle the promise of its ancient and unimaginable secrets.
		He attacks their northern settlement and the Messiahs, Dillapan and Tontith, accompanied by the beautiful, enigmatic Coonishinook and her fire brother, Teeka, flee into the unknown and an adventure in which they encounter strange lands, fantastic cities and fabulous creatures.
		Their lives, loves and loyalties will be torn and tested before the ancient Prophecy leads them to an unbearable truth, the solution of which lies 60,000 years in the future.
	www.lulu.com /kitgleave (614 words)

	OCTOBER SCIENCE FICTION
		Science fiction and fantasy are sometimes accused of overemphasizing plot and premise at the expense of characterization and other literary elements.
		Together they must escape her villainous mother and journey to the land of the dead to make amends with the friend Lyra unwittingly betrayed and the father Will never had a chance to know.
		It isn't often that science fiction writers consider the economics of the high-tech wonders they describe.
	www.sff.net /people/MBerry/sept00.htp (1109 words)

	MEview - Messiah Node
		In Messiah Node, the story of Deidre, Archangel Michael, Prince of Darkness Morningstar, Mouse the superhacker, and the whole crew from Archangel Protocol and Fallen Host are back to do battle for the fate of mankind.
		Nothing stirs things up like a visit from the prophet Elijah and the appearance of the messiah, or messiahs, or maybe messiahs, since everyone has their own idea of just who might be the real thing.
		The acreage in contention in Messiah Node is both literal and virtual, making this one of the most maddening debates in history.
	www.hikeeba.com /meviews/review.php3?id=0451459296&new=yes (415 words)

	Science Fiction - Alpha Blog: matrix
		Science Fiction is when the truth is stranger than fact and that we need to look at the world of science fiction.
		The Matrix is only one of several pieces of fiction that have been influenced by this book.
		Similar questions have also been raised in other science fiction films such as eXistenZ and The Thirteenth Floor (both of which were released the same year as The Matrix, receiving relatively less attention in box office sales and ratings), Total Recall, The Truman Show and Abre los ojos (remade as Vanilla Sky).
	scififansa.blogspot.com /2005/11/matrix.html (5186 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2005
		The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.
		A common criticism against big-market fantasy journals is that the published material is too commercial, and that the only 'edgy' stuff happens off the radar screen and with smaller publications.
		This edition of Fantasy and Science Fiction continues in its blasphemous vein with Robert Reed's "The New Deity." Reed does not poke a pointed stick at the Christian world and its Christ, but at the process by which a society develops its religious belief.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/fs5204.htm (935 words)

	Messiahs in fiction and fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Dune Messiah he wanders into the desert, leaving behind twin newborn children.
		In the science fiction television series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Starfleet officer Benjamin Sisko takes command of space station Deep Space Nine (formerly the Cardassian mining station Terok Nor) orbiting the planet Bajor.
		In her own realm were fog and rain and only capital there were few welcoming cheers; but as she rode over the mobs of hard-featured, grim-visaged men and women who stared.
	www.choam.info /title/me/messiahs-in-fiction-and-fantasy.html (2416 words)

	Rapture -- Or Tribulation
		Much of John's "story" in Revelation is mirrored throughout the Bible; because of this, the belief of an end time with a reigning Messiah is not unique to the Christian faith.
		The things that should first come to pass are false Messiahs and wars and rumors of war.
		These two groups will go through the time of Tribulation with the rest of mankind, although some scholars maintain that these followers of the true Messiah will be spared from some of the suffering brought about by God--but not the persecutions of the Antichrist.
	duncanlong.com /science-fiction-fantasy-short-stories/rapture.html (4840 words)

	BiblioBlog - Category Archives for General Fiction
		The novel is actually historical fiction, inspired by the English town of Eyam, making it easy to feel like you’ve been transported in time and are experiencing what life for those townspeople must have been like.
		I found the story to be many things: sad (Anna’s longing for her children and the time she could have spent with George Viccars was heartbreaking), courageous (the towns willingness to sacrifice themselves to help stop an outbreak), inspiring, and just downright interesting.
		The 6 Messiahs follows the same kind of formula as The List of 7, but I don’t see that as necessarily a bad thing.
	www.biblioblog.com /archives/cat_general_fiction.html (9448 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly -- Letters to the Editor
		I have been a fan and critic and teacher of science fiction for years and I strongly suggest that Dune, the film, is right up there with Blade Runner.
		I am not a harsh judge of anything fantasy and will go out of my way to argue any good points, but this had none except for the dragon.
		A new plague is upon us, my science fiction brethren, science fiction repetition or Sci-fi name reliance is causing a deep stagnation.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue190/letters.html (4253 words)

	The Top 10 Signs of a False Messiah
		False messiahs, sects, cults, and some religions are alike in that each claims to possess its own special unique truth with which its adherents must agree.
		It's amazing how many of these store-bought messiahs have skeletons in their closets--screwed-up childhoods, curious reversals in their lives, and secrets known only to a few.
		Most cults, and their self-appointed messiahs, employ a common set of tools designed to brainwash the new entrant, to turn him or her from an objective rational being into a faithful follower.
	topten.org /public/BC/BC84.html (951 words)

	Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		Possessed of their father's supernormal powers, they are being groomed as Messiahs.
		No one - not Herbert, not Chilton, not the science fiction community at the time - had any idea that Dune would be adopted and read by successive generations with a fervor bordering on cult worship.
		Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=1&p1=Dune (570 words)

	AUTHORS "F" Page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		Stephen E. Fabian (1930-): Fantasy illustrator Stephen E. Fabian ISFDB Fable: {to be done}; see Aesop Epigrammatic or short tale whose characters are objects, animals, people, or gods, which usually illustrates a moral.
		These novels straddle the border between spy fiction and science fiction, because of the frequent use of high-tech weapons and paraphrenalia, and the explicit use of satellite and space station settings at times.
		Rick is active in LASFS, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, arguably the oldest continuously meeting science fiction club in the world, and in organizing SF cons, such as Loscon.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/authorsF.html (4389 words)

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