I Have Touched The Face of the Cosmos

I just received my author’s copy of the book Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion from Fordham University Press. The e-book has been available for a while, but this means that the print edition will be shipping soon to those who have ordered it.

It is an honor to be a contributor to a volume that includes so many other illustrious names, such as Robert J. Sawyer, David Brin, and Guy Consolmagno, and an interview with John Glenn, one of that small number of people who have not merely written and spoken about spaceflight, but actually done it. I want to thank Paul Levinson and Michael Waltemathe once again for putting the volume together.

I hope that my short story in the volume, “Biblical Literalism in the New Jerusalem,” will not turn out to be my only published work of science fiction. And in case you are wondering what the story is about, here’s a teaser: The New Jerusalem in the title is the name of a space station…