<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gwern Branwen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gwern0@gmail.com">gwern0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Seems like a worthwhile thesis, although I wonder whether those 2<br>
priest archetypes are quite so universal - such a categorization would<br>
have difficulty with Frank Herbert, I think.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>... and Arthur Clarke ("The Star") ... and Dan Simmons (Hyperion) ... and Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow) ... and Peter F. Hamilton (the Night's Dawn trilogy) ... and Walter M. Miller (A Canticle for Leibowitz) ... and Tony Boucher ("The Quest for St. Aquin") ... and ...<br>
<br>The makings of at least one excellent doctoral thesis lies in the image of the (Catholic) priest in SF. However, this person's thesis ain't it.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>