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Ep. 77 - Gene Wolfe, Catholic Sci-FI Legend - Sandra Miesel, Fr. Brendon Laroche
After much popular demand, Thomas pays tribute to legendary Catholic sci-fi writer Gene Wolfe, who passed away last year. Though not known to the general public, Wolfe is a sci-fi author's sci-fi author—a number of his contemporaries considered him not only the best in the genre, but in American fiction at the time (Ursula Le Guin said "Wolfe is our Melville"). Among today's writers, one of his biggest fans is Neil Gaiman.
One critic described Wolfe's magnum opus, The Book of the New Sun, as "a Star Wars–style space opera penned by G. K. Chesterton in the throes of a religious conversion."…
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