I no longer remember which one it was, but there's a James P. Hogan book in which Earth-based humans are in a race with people on another planet, and the people on the competing planet started religions on Earth ... in order to SLOW US DOWN.
That always seemed to me like something that should be true, even if it wasn't. :-)
That sounds like the Giants series, revealed a few books along.
I don't remember which book it was first hinted in or which it
was finally revealed in -- I'm pretty sure those weren't in the
same novel, but I read one of those N-in-one volumes so I can't
even say for sure which novel I was reading when.
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That always seemed to me like something that should be true, even if it wasn't. :-)
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That sounds like the Giants series, revealed a few books along. I don't remember which book it was first hinted in or which it was finally revealed in -- I'm pretty sure those weren't in the same novel, but I read one of those N-in-one volumes so I can't even say for sure which novel I was reading when.