ABSTRACT
Chapter Nine, “The future nothing: believing in the impossible or the impossibility of belief,” turns to nothingness and absence and it uses these ideas to explore larger ideas of divine absence and versions of a death-of-god theology. From an empty “heaven” on Buffy, to vast gaps of empty space on Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, to the radically unknowable yet familiar world on The Leftovers, this chapter asks how we continue to create a meaningful world as the abyss seems to widen.
