building of the Third Temple and the arrival of the Messiah. The Harry Turtledove short story "The R-Strain" (1985) is about a genetically engineered ruminant pig, and the debate over whether or not it would be kosher. Logos VALIS (1981) by Philip K. Dick Messianism In Frank Herbert's Dune, Paul Muad'dib becomes a prophetic messiah to the Fremen when his mental training and the drug/spice melange allow him to directly perceive time and space In Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, Valentine Michael Smith becomes a messiah figure to some of the general population of the earth, when having been raised by Martians, he turns their philosophy into a human religion When the Sleeper Wakes, by H. G. Wells Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars C. S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy series of novels, in the course which the Cambridge lecturer Erwin Ransom develops into a kind of Prophet or Saint. Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun John Barnes' The Sky So Big and Black He Walked Among Us, Weird Science #13—A spaceman on a four-year expedition uses his technology to help the locals—curing a boy with antibiotics, using dehydrated pills to turn water into milk, creating at the spaceman had been executed on a rack, becoming the planet's religious symbol and the "son" of their god. Superman is viewed as the superhero equivalent of Jesus, especially in the 1978 film series, Smallville and the DC Extended Universe. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice seems to highlight that concept in some respects, with the odd biblical allusion. Millennialism and Millenarianism Childhood's End (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke Lord of the World (1907) by Robert Hugh Benson In the short story "The Word to Space" by Poul Anderson, alien religious broadcasts were deliberately beamed to humanity. Original sin A Case of Conscience, by James Blish, is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race which evolves through several forms through the course of its life cycle and which has no religion, any concept of God, an afterlife, or the idea of sin In Perelandra, by C. S. Lewis, the protagonist must stop a second Fall of Man from happening on another planet The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, revolves around the idea of original sin through the mention of Dust Pope In In partibus infidelium ("In the Land of the Unbelievers") by