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

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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