The Science Fiction Priests Are a Big Part of the Story

Asamov says that the golden age of science fiction magazines began in 19 38, when john w. Campbell became the editor of astounding stories and remoulded it into something closer to his heart's sire. And chesterton was providing that context within our world. Out of the planet is zooming back out further to look at the cosmos as a whole, where you have mars and venus populated and and trying to draw an even larger narrative around the whole thing.