No, Canticle is a postapocalyptic thing from the sixties. It covers, uh, if I recall correctly, around ten thousand years, from the apocalypse in the near future to the next apocalypse humans bring on themselves. I can't say what it's like because it's not like anything else I ever read.
I'm not familiar with Last Light, so I can't address that, or what Martin might have said in it. Song of Ice and Fire includes the old nature-based religion, the newer worship of the "Seven" which includes a lot of aspects of the trinity, only moreso, and some newer religions including a monotheistic fire-god one moving in. The followers co-exist and conflict. The characters display varying degrees of devotion and rely on their religions to different extents. Some of the religious characters are sleazy; some of the nonreligious ones are upright and honorable. The kids of the marriage between the follower of the old gods and the devotee of the Seven display believable conflicts about their own spiritual beliefs. Religion is frequently a plot point but not the center of the story.
Most of the characters display a sort of noble-warrior ethos that overrides the specific religious beliefs.
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Date: 16 Mar 2006 11:03 pm (UTC)I'm not familiar with Last Light, so I can't address that, or what Martin might have said in it. Song of Ice and Fire includes the old nature-based religion, the newer worship of the "Seven" which includes a lot of aspects of the trinity, only moreso, and some newer religions including a monotheistic fire-god one moving in. The followers co-exist and conflict. The characters display varying degrees of devotion and rely on their religions to different extents. Some of the religious characters are sleazy; some of the nonreligious ones are upright and honorable. The kids of the marriage between the follower of the old gods and the devotee of the Seven display believable conflicts about their own spiritual beliefs. Religion is frequently a plot point but not the center of the story.
Most of the characters display a sort of noble-warrior ethos that overrides the specific religious beliefs.