It always annoys me when people talk about whether sci-fi gets it "right" about the future, or poke fun when it gets it "wrong". I think it was Asimov who said that the job of the science fiction writer isn't to predict the future, but to prevent it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
