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Monastic Sci-Fi

Cultural base blending tech-religious asceticism, ancient fanatical rituals, hidden holy orders, and tech-worshipping monastic life.

The awe of sacred technology, where the divine is found in the hum of machinery and the pronouncements of high-tech priests. It's the thrill of ancient rituals performed with futuristic tools, and the mystery of hidden orders guarding technological secrets as holy relics.

Books

A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller, Jr.
AnathemNeal Stephenson
Chapterhouse: DuneFrank Herbert
The Fountains of ParadiseArthur C. Clarke
A Case of ConscienceJames Blish
Off Armageddon ReefDavid Weber
The TellingUrsula K. Le Guin
Armageddon SummerBruce Coville
The book of strange new thingsMichel Faber
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse WomanWalter M. Miller, Jr.
Gather, Darkness!Fritz Leiber
A Heritage of StarsClifford D. Simak
Lake of the Long SunGene Wolfe
By Schism Rent AsunderDavid Weber
CoalescentStephen Baxter
Project PopeClifford D. Simak
Calde of the Long SunGene Wolfe
Sisters of the Vast BlackLina Rather
The Parafaith WarL. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Midst Toil and TribulationDavid Weber
At the Sign of TriumphDavid Weber
The Judas RoseSuzette Haden Elgin
The CrossingMandy Hager
KiteworldKeith Roberts
The Thick and the LeanChana Porter
The Day of Their ReturnPoul Anderson
Notes from the Burning AgeClaire North
HollowB. Catling
An Officer's DutyJean Johnson
HeavenIan Stewart
Still Forms on FoxfieldJoan Slonczewski
Under a calculating starJohn Morressy
We Shall Sing a Song into the DeepAndrew Kelly Stewart
Sisters of the Forsaken StarsLina Rather
Eyes of the CalculorSean McMullen
War in HeavenDavid Zindell
This Fortress WorldJames E. Gunn
This Golden FlameEmily Victoria
Priests Of MarsGraham McNeill
Every Sky a GraveJay Posey
Neon lotusMarc Laidlaw
Into the VoidTim Lebbon
Last RefugeElizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Bones of GodStephen Leigh
Radiant StarAnn Leckie
The Race for GodBrian Herbert
QuietusTristan Palmgren
Avalanche SoldierSusan R. Matthews
The Initiate BrotherSean Russell
Bright messengersGentry Lee
Cestus DeiJohn Maddox Roberts
Hard to Be a GodArkady Strugatsky
The Mansions of SpaceJohn Morressy
Hell's Foundations QuiverDavid Weber
Maze of DeathPhilip K. Dick
Speaker to heavenAtanielle Annyn Noel
Beyond the gatesCatherine Wells
RedworldCharles L. Harness
The Horns of RuinTim Akers
The missionariesD. G. Compton

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