Article: The Truth is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction.(Book review)

Bertonneau, Thomas, and Kim Paffenroth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006. 272 pp., $18.99 (USD). ISBN: 978-1-58743-126-5 (paper).

[1] Exploring the interface of religion and science fiction in film and television has generated a small cottage industry. Bertonneau and Paffenroth's exploration of six (Western) science-fiction television series fits nicely into this cluster, examining the way in which "the forms of popular culture and the content of high culture communicate with one another to the enrichment of both" (25).

[2] Regrettably, the volume's introduction is an unclear, potted history of the ancient world and literature that is off-putting, and ...

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