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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
L. Ron Hubbard once said, "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." Having read from both the Koran and the Bible, I wonder if religion and science-fiction (or what passed for it before Jules Verne came along) are not one and the same. They each contradict themselves (and each other) by the way, so I'm not sure reading the Koran will answer many questions for the unenlightened.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30252...-h/30252-h.htm.
It's "The Four Faced Visitors of Ezekiel", which originally appeared in the March 1961 issue of Analog SF magazine.
The author suggests that Ezekiel might have actually encountered aliens visiting in a UFO, but the story was filtered through his own knowledge and preconceptions.
(I had an amusing go-around with the PG cataloger, who placed it in the
Bible. O.T. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. category, and didn't see why I thought it might better be under SF...
)
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Dennis