Imagine a boy poised on the brink of adulthood. The simple life of childhood is gone forever, blown away in the gusts of new powers, new feelings, new preoccupations . The terra incognita of adulthood looms ahead, with new privileges, new opportunities, new challenges. Science fiction is the modern hero tale, the literature of adolescent boys, a branch of juvenile literature.
Alien creatures New worlds.
We drop in on strangers when we are born. About the time we learn how to get along with the other members of the family, it's time to move out and forge our own way through the larger universe. A quirk of this century has been the notion that parents could raise children in two incompatible religions simultaneously. The secret to understanding the universe was to first set aside as irrelevant the Person, Son, Word, and Work of God. Since few Christians are aware of the mechanism Horace Mann set in place 150 years ago to steal Christian children right out from under the noses of their parents, the church sat out this particular struggle.