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Posted in Fantasy, Science Fiction on Aug 9th, 2007
Reviewed by Tannia E. Ortiz-Lopes
The new book from Robina Williams, Angelos, will keep you reading beyond your bedtime! I was unable to put it down. The author has an entertaining way of embracing complex topics such as time-traveling, life after death, Greek mythology, legends, and Catholic theology braided with philosophy and mysticism. She also uses […]
Posted in Science Fiction on Aug 5th, 2007
edited by Karina and Robert Fabian
rReviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopes
Infinite Space, Infinite God, edited by Karina and Rob Fabian, is an anthology of Sci-Fi stories organized in seven chapters. Each chapter begins with an explanation of some Catholic issues, with a brief summary of the stories and how the characters deal with them. It is […]
Posted in Classics, Science Fiction on Aug 3rd, 2007
reviewed by Marilyn Prever
This 1959 science fiction classic gives a new twist to the familiar post-nuclear war story: it follows the life of an American Catholic monastery from the new Dark Ages after the devastation of World War Three, through the slow re-building of civilization (a span of several thousand […]
Posted in Science Fiction on Feb 9th, 2006
Reviewed by Debra Murphy
How’s this for a “high-concept” premise for a bestselling sci-fi novel: The Jesuits in outer space. While the scenario may sound at first a mite odd—think First Contact meets Blackrobe—on second thought the notion is so obvious that one wonders why no one has thought of it before. […]