@[email protected] I've always liked the description of it as a giant upside-down coffee table.
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@KitMuse @bookstodon A couple of Heinlein novels that spring to mind are Job and Stranger in a Strange Land, both of which have religious themes.
Also the science backed religion in the first Foundation novel by Asimov. And Childhoods End by Clarke has some broad cosmic themes to it, although they don't emerge till late in the book.
Edit. Sorry, just noticed you wanted to avoid the Golden Age
@[email protected] @theverge The fact that it would also give e.g. China access to everything stored by any British person doesn't seem to have occurred to them.