{"id":34779,"date":"2012-04-30T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T07:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=34779"},"modified":"2014-12-30T17:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T00:43:20","slug":"there-could-be-only-one-thing-better-than-a-lecture-science-fiction-from-john-c-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/04\/there-could-be-only-one-thing-better-than-a-lecture-science-fiction-from-john-c-wright.html","title":{"rendered":"There Could be Only One Thing Better Than a Lecture on Science Fiction from John C. Wright&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>That would be a lecture by John C. Wright on Science Fiction in which he both quotes Mike Flynn and relates the whole thing to the Catholic worldview (partly because he is himself Catholic and partly because he is exhorting a bunch of young Catholic geeks at Franciscan University to put all the awesome geekiness to good use by reclaiming science fiction for the medieval tradition of storytelling to which it owes its genesis.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiwright.com\/2012\/04\/science-romance-and-the-scientific-romance-of-christendom\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tolle, lege.  It\u2019s terrific.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I am now reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Up%20Jim%20River&amp;index=blended\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Up Jim River<\/em><\/a>, which is the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Up%20Jim%20River&amp;index=blended#\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=January+Dancer&amp;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AJanuary+Dancer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The January Dancer<\/em>, <\/a>by Flynn.  The guy is so good.  So good.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be a lecture by John C. 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