As a fan of SF author John C. Wright I always look forward to his next book/story. Often though his blog posts I enjoy just as much. His conversion has made him sort of an Apostle to the Science Fiction/Fantasy Fans. As a fan of that genre since childhood it did not often challenge my materialistic atheist beliefs. That a large group of SF/Fantasy fans are atheists/agnostics makes the intersection of the fans of his books and what he says on other matters on his blog rather interesting.
This time in response to one of his readers he posts on “the problems of overpopulation” which is quite an excellent read and exposes the myth of overpopulation as preached by modern Malthusian Chicken Littles.
Additionally SF writer Michael Flynn who I am also a great fan of returns to “Return of the Age of Unreason Part II” on the Scientific Revolution and it’s connection to Western (specifically Christian) thought. Both of his posts on this are the response to a “freethinker” who a Michael Fly says “He writes that he is “not a Middle Age scholar” and then sets about proving it. “
Nice to see that both of these Catholic authors have taken the time to engage the lies of the age so often construed as common knowledge.
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Don’t forget Dean Koontz! While his free-ranging novels stray beyond SF&F (he can be very scary), his Catholic vision is right on point, addressing the ultimate banality of evil, the transcendent joy of the Mystery of God, and where our response to the issues of today put us.
Walter Miller’s one novel A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ is truly Catholic S-F. I enjoyed Heinlein as a lad; he seems to be wistful / agnostic more than anti-religion. C. S. Lewis’ space trilogy is very much a cautionary tale from an Anglican (when Anglicanism meant something) point-of-view.
Mack, I love “A Canticle for Liebowitz” and Lewis’s “Perelanda” trilogy, too.
dancingcrane, I had not known about Dean Koontz’s work. Can you suggest some titles?