From 2014, but perhaps of current interest:
I have been asked to write a brief essay about how my faith informs my work, and what is the general relation of Catholicism to Science Fiction.
Unfortunately, I cannot.
This is not because I have no opinions on the topic, but rather because they cannot be told briefly.
I must give something of my background story to explain how I came by my answers, in order to give the answers fully. I beg the indulgence of the patient reader:
Few men have ever hated as much as Christ as I have, before turning to love him. Before I was a Catholic, I was an atheist, and not an atheist who kept his opinions to himself, but, rather, a vituperative, proselytizing, aggressive, evangelist of atheism, who sought at every opportunity to spread the Bad News that God Was Dead and Christians were Fools.
But there was one area sacrosanct from my proselytizing effort. I did not use my science fiction stories to preach nor promote my worldview.
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