User:Chooserr/Catholic Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers

This is a list of Science Fiction and Fantasy authors who are Catholic.
 * Also see the Wikipedia page List of Catholic Authors


 * Robert Hugh Benson
 * Anthony Boucher
 * G.K. Chesterton
 * Jo Clayton
 * John Crowley
 * Brian Doyle
 * Michael Flynn
 * James Patrick Kelly (Possibly)
 * R.A. Lafferty
 * Murray Leinster
 * Julian May
 * Sandra Miesel
 * Walter M. Miller, Jr.
 * Michael D. O'Brien
 * Tim Powers
 * Fred Saberhagen
 * Clifford D. Simak
 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Jules Verne
 * Gene Wolfe
 * John C. Wright

Here are some books/authors which are quite safe and highly recommended (excerpted from Michael D. O'Brien's A Landscape with Dragons), though not necessarily in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre:


 * Bess Streeter Aldrich-- A Lantern in Her Hand
 * Jane Austin-- Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
 * William Barrett-- The Lilies of the Field
 * Hilaire Belloc-- The Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts (for Worse Children): Verses;A Moral Alphabet; Cautionary Tales for Children:Designed for the Admonition of Children between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen years: Verses; New Cautionary Tales: Verses.
 * Msgr. Hugh Benson--The Lord of the World
 * Thyra Ferre Bjorn-- Mama's Way, Pappa's Wife, Pappa's Daughter
 * R. D. Blackmore-- Lorna Doone
 * Charlotte Bronte—Jane Eyre
 * D. K. Broster—Ships in the Bay!; The Jacobite trilogy: The Flight of the Heron; The Dark Mile; The Gleam of the North.
 * John Buchan—John McNab; Prester John; Witch Wood. The Dickson McCunn series: Huntingtower; Castle Gay. The Richard Hannay series: The Thirty-Nine Steps; Greenmantle; Mr. Standfast; The Power House; The Three Hostages; The Island of Sheep.
 * Willa Cather—Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; Shadows on the Rock
 * G K Chesterton—The Ballad of the White Horse; The Ball and the Cross; The Father Brown Omnibus; The Flying Inn; The Man Who Was Thursday; The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
 * Erskine Childers—The Riddle of the Sands
 * Isabel C. Clark—A Case of Conscience; Children of the Shadow, and others…
 * Elizabeth Coatsworth—Here I Stay: A Maine Novel
 * James Fenimore Cooper—The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans.
 * Richard Dana—Two Years before the Mast
 * Louis De Wohl—Citadel of God: A Novel about Saint Benedict; Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel about Saint Catherine of Siena; The Quiet Light: A Novel about Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Restless Flame: A Novel about Saint Francis Xavier; The Spear (about Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Christ.)
 * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—The Lost World; The White Company; The Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.
 * Loula Grace Erdman—The Edge of Time; The Years of the Locust; Lonely Passage.
 * Kathryn Forbes—Mama’s Bank Account.
 * Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey—Belles on Their Toes; Cheaper by the Dozen
 * Rumer Godden—The Dark Horse; In This House of Brede
 * Oliver Goldsmith—The Vicar of Wakesfield.
 * Elizabeth Goudge—The Bird in the Tree; A City of the Bells; Dean’s Watch; Green Dolphin Street; Heart of the Family; Pilgrim’s Inn; The Rosemary Tree; The Scent of Water.
 * Robin Lee Graham with Derek Gill—Dove
 * Henry Rider Haggard—Allan Quatermain; King Solomon’s Mines; She.
 * Louis Hermon—Maria Chapdelain
 * James Herriot—All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Wise and Wonderful; All Things Bright and Beautiful; The Lord God Made Them All; Every Living Thing.
 * James Hilton—Goodbye, Mr. Chips
 * Victor Hugo—les Miserables
 * Helen Keller—The Story of My Life
 * Rudyard Kipling—Captain Courageous
 * Harper Lee—To Kill a Mockingbird
 * C. S. Lewis—Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra: That Hideous Strength.
 * Sally Magnusson—The Flying Scotsman.
 * Catherine Marshall—Christy
 * Jean Merrill—The Pushcart War
 * Ralph Moody—The Little Britches; Man of the Family; The Fields of Home; The Home Ranch; Mary Emma and Company; Shaking the Nickel Bush; The Dry Divide; Horse of a Different Color.
 * Charles Nordhoff—Mutiny on the Bounty
 * Mary O’Hara—My Friend Flicka; Thunderhead; The Green Grass of Wyoming
 * Baroness Orczy—The Scarlet Pimpernel
 * Frances Gray Patton—Good Morning, Miss Dove
 * Charles Portis—True Grit
 * Chaim Potok—The Chosen; The Promise
 * Rafael Sabitini—Captain Blood; Scaramouche; The Sea Hawk.
 * Samuel Shellabarger—Prince of Foxes
 * Henryk Sienkiewicz—Quo Vadis?
 * J. R. R. Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings; The Simarillion
 * Maria Augusta Trapp—Around the Year with the Trapp Family; The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.*Meriol Trevor—Shadows and Images.
 * Mark Twain—Joan of Arc
 * Jules Verne—A Long Vacation (Original title: A Two Years’ Vacation)
 * Leonard Wibberley—Epics of Everest; The Hands of Cormac Joyce; The Land That Isn’t There: An Irish Adventure; The Last Stand of Father Felix; The Shannon Sailors: A Voyage to the Heart of Ireland. The Mouse Series: Beware the Mouse! The Mouse that Roared; The Mouse on the Moon; The Mouse on Wall Street: The Mouse that Saved the West;  As Leonard Holton: The Father Bredder mysteries.
 * Owen Wister—the Virginian
 * P. G. Wodehouse—French Leave; Heavy Weather; Laughing Gas; Man Upstairs and Other Stories; Something Fresh; Summer Lightning
 * Percival Wren—Beau Geste

Some aditions to the above list:
 * Kimberly Willis Holt--My Louisiana Sky; Waiting for Gregory; When Zachary Beaver Came to Town; Mister and Me; Dancing in Cadillac Light; Keeping Prairie Thunder
 * Christopher Paolini-- The Inheritance Tilogy: Eragon; Eldest; Empire?
 * Elena Maria Vidal-- Trianon; Madame Royale

Novels BY CATHOLIC AUTHORS on the Top 100 Most Influential Novels and Books:


 * Don Quixote (1605, 1630) Miguel de Cervantes Catholic
 * War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstoy, Russian Orthodox
 * Ulysses (1922) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
 * In Search of Lost Time (1913-27) Marcel Proust, Jewish, Catholic
 * The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Feodor Dostoevsky, Russian Orthodox
 * Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert, Catholic
 * One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Catholic
 * The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Catholic
 * Finnegans Wake (1939) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
 * The Man Without Qualities (1930-43) Robert Musil, Catholic
 * The Red and the Black (1830) Stendhal, Catholic
 * Le Pere Goriot (1835) Honore de Balzac, Catholic
 * A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
 * The Tin Drum (1959) Gunter Grass, Catholic
 * The Awakening (1899) Kate Chopin, Catholic
 * Germinal (1855) Emile Zola, Catholic
 * U.S.A. Trilogy (1930-38) John Dos Passos, Catholic
 * Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) Alfred Doblin, Catholic
 * The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Carlos Fuentes, Catholic
 * A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ernest Hemingway, Catholic
 * Brideshead Revisited (1945) Evelyn Waugh, Catholic
 * The Betrothed (1827, 1840) Alessandro Manzoni, Catholic
 * The Leopard (1958) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Catholic
 * The Good Soldier Svejk (1921-23) Jaroslav Hasek, Catholic
 * The Hound of Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle, Catholic; Spiritualist
 * Gone with the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell, Catholic