Is religious science fiction a thing? It seems like it should be a thing. I’m making it a thing, and I’m going to start with Ada Hoffmann’s new space opera, The Outside (paperback, Kindle), which isn’t religious in that it pushes one religion or another, but is instead a story in which religion and religious elements play a large part. But it’s not — as she discusses in the following email interview — the only unique aspect of this intriguing novel.