Gene Wolfe is a Christian??
Oh, and for Fantasy -- Stephen Lawhead did a great series on the Arthurian legend...and a couple of quasi-historical novels on St. Patrick, and on Robin Hood.
Yes, Wolfe is a conservative Catholic like John C Wright, who is also a conservative Catholic and a huge fan of Wolfe. I think John C Wright is one of the better authors I have come across in the last ten years or so. Gene Wolfe might be the US’s greatest living author, of speculative fiction or not.
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