Archbishop pays tribute to Space Hawk
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- May
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The website begins “In what might be the oddest literary pairing of all time…”
Who am I to argue?
The Catholic archbishop of Newark, John Myers, has teamed up with Gary K. Wolf, the creator of Roger Rabbit, to write a science fiction novel called Space Vulture.
Really. It’s true. Space Vulture.
They two are boyhood friends, and their book is an homage to Space Hawk, sci fi pulp they read as kids.
According to the Website:
Determined to recapture the exhilarating science fiction of their youth, they transport us now to the far reaches of the galaxy. In their fast-paced new novel, heroic Marshal Victor Corsaire and cowardly con man Gil Terry join forces with a beautiful and courageous widow and her two young sons to battle Space Vulture, the most villainous marauder in the cosmos.Come along for the ride and discover all the adventure, suspense, action and fun that Gary and John first found in science fiction fifty years ago, and now share with you in this rollicking tale of the spaceways.
The Newark Star-Ledger talked to Myers about the book:
Myers said he would work on the book at night when he didn’t have appointments or at his summer residence in Pittstown, in Hunterdon County. The two would tease out themes and devise plots over the phone, and would edit text via e-mail. Myers tried, he said, to weave moral themes through the text. “This is not written from specifically a Christian point or view, or a Catholic point of view,” he said. “But it’s written from the point of view of a believer. There are things in this book that you wouldn’t find in most science fiction writing, like prayer. Some of the characters, when they’re in a tough scrape, pray, which is an act of faith.”There’s also a conversion of sorts, for one of the characters, a tough-as-nails con man. “He was someone who has a conversion through the course of the story from being a selfish man on the take, to wanting to protect a couple of young boys who come into his custody,” Myers said.
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