Recommended Reading List

This is a list of stories and a few articles for those who would like a place to start exploring the field of Mormon sf. This is not necessarily just the best stuff (see the awards page), but it covers the broad range of items in the bibliography. I have also included a few works by non-Mormons at the bottom of the list that mention Mormonism or Utah.

Works by Mormons

• Allred, Lee.
  • “For the Strengh of the Hills.”
  • “On Moral Fiction: The Gardnerian Ideal and the Mormon Poetic.”

• Anderson, Glenn L. The Millennium File.

• Asplund, Russell William. “The Unhappy Golem of Rabbi Leitch.”

• Baker, Virginia E. “On the Last Day, God Created.”

• Bell, M. Shayne.
  • “Lock Down."
  • “The Moon Girl.”
  • “Mrs. Lincoln’s China.”
  • “One Hundred Years of Russian Revolution, 7 November 1917 to 7 November 2017: Novaya Moskava, Mars.”
• Bell, M. Shayne, ed. Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, especially stories by Anderson, Bell, Thornley, and Wolverton.

• Card, Orson Scott.
  • “Ender’s Game.”
  • Ender’s Game.
  • “Fantasy and the Believing Reader.”
  • “Pageant Wagon.”
  • Seventh Son.
  • Speaker for the Dead.
  • “Unaccompanied Sonata.”

• Collings, Michael R.
  • “The Blood Burns."
  • In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card.
  • “On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California.”
  • “Taliesin” in Som Certaine Sonets.
  • “Writing the Fantastic and Religion: Some Ruminations on the Roles of Poetry.”

• Farland, David. The Runelords: The Sum of All Men.

• Hale, Shannon. The Goose Girl.

• Heimerdinger, Chris. Tennis Shoes among the Nephites.

• Henderson, Zenna.
  • “Anything Box.”
  • “Pottage.”
  • “Through a Glass—Darkly.”

• Hickman, Tracy. The Immortals.

• Jones, Raymond F.
  • “Academy for Pioneers.”
  • “Noise Level.”
  • Son of the Stars.
  • “The Lions of Rome.”

• Lowe, Eric. “The Tao of Rain and Water.”

• Parkin, Scott R. “Of Cats and Disease and Goodness.”

• Wolverton, Dave.
  • “After a Lean Winter.”
  • Serpent Catch.
  • Path of the Hero.

Works by Non-Mormons That Prominently Mention Mormons

• Bear, Greg. Moving Mars. New York: Tor, 1993.

• Davidson, Avram, and Cynthia Goldstone. “Pebble in Time.” Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 39 (August 1970): 103–7. Reprinted in Laughing Space: Funny Science Fiction, ed. Isaac Asimov and J. O. Jeppson. Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

• Ing, Dean. Systemic Shock. New York: Tor, 1992.

• Modesitt, L. E., Jr. The Ghost of the Revelator. New York: Tor, 1998.

• Turtledove, Harry. How Few Remain. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

• Williams, Walter Jon. Days of Atonement. New York: Tor, 1991.