An Overview of Catholic Science Fiction (ft. Sandra Miesel)

Author and Medievalist Sandra Miesel comes on the show to provide an overview of SF Fandom and the various Catholic science fiction authors who were her friends.  Books by Sandra Miesel: Against Time’s Arrow (1978) Dreamrider (1982) Shaman (1989) Heads to the Storm: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling (1989) The Da Vinci Hoax (2004) Pied Piper of Atheism: Philip Pullman and Children’s Fantasy (2007) Articles by Sandra Miesel: The Witches Next Door (2002): https://www.crisismagazine.com/2002/the-witches-next-door-2 Harry Potter for Nerds (2011). Is There Hope for Slytherin House? Can the Serpent Change Its Skin? The Cross and the Stars (2011): https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2011/05/15/the-cross-and-the-stars/ Freemasons and Their Craft: What Catholics Should Know (2017): https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=11540 ************************************************************************************************************* Follow me on Twitter @AaronIrber Donate to my Patreon - I Might Believe in Faeries https://www.patreon.com/imightbelieveinfaeries Like my Facebook page - I Might Believe in Faeries Battle Of The Creek by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Logo Art by Linnea Kisby ************************************************************************************************************* Books/Authors Mentioned: A Case of Conscience - James Blish Rudyard Kipling Three Hearts and Three Lions, A Midsummer Tempest - Poul Anderson Arthur C. Clarke Robert A. Heinlein Isaac Asimov Childe Cycle - Gordon R. Dickson Andre Norton Leah Brackett Till We Have Faces, The Discarded Image, An Experiment in Criticism - C. S. Lewis Zenna Henderson Larry Niven The Instrumentality of Mankind, The Dead Lady of Clown Town, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - Cordwainer Smith Philip K. Dick David Drake Catholic Books/Authors Mentioned: A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. Dom Hubert van Zeller Lord of the World, Dawn of All - Robert Hugh Benson The Face in the Frost, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies - John Bellairs Past Master, The Flame is Green, Okla Hannali - R. A. Lafferty The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe Night Moves, The Way Down the Hill, Declare, Last Call, The Anubis Gates, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, The Stress of Her Regard, Hide Me Among the Graves, On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers The Berserker Series, The Empire of the East Series, The Books of Swords, Love Conquers All - Fred Saberhagen Michael D. O’Brien Inferno - Jerry Pournelle Children of the Atom - Wilmar H. Shiras The Eight Arrow: Odysseus in the Underworld - J. Augustine Wetta O.S.B. A Bloody Habit, Brother Wolf - Eleanor Bourg Nicholson St. Anthony of the Desert - St. Athanasius