Abp. Myers is writing ... a sci-fi novel?!

Amy Welborn, who has recently finished a novel of her own, has noted this amazing little news tidbit: Archbishop Myers is co-writing a sci-fi novel! I just bet some people (*cough* - JIMMY AKIN - *cough* ... and about a third of the St. Blogs community *cough*) are just going to be tickled pink.

Hey, even I'm excited!

And the name of this work-in-progres?? ... yep, "Space Vulture:"

"Space Vulture" is a fast-paced intergalactic tale about a heroic marshal and a con man, who team up with a widow and her two children to fight Space Vulture, the "most villainous marauder in the cosmos," Wolf told the newspaper. Wolf already has three other science-fiction novels under his belt.

I kid you not.

More backstory:

The archbishop said he worked on the book at night, when he didn't have appointments, or at his summer residence. The two would tease out themes and devise plots over the phone, and would edit text via e-mail.

Myers told the newspaper that he tried to weave moral themes through the text, but it is not written as an overtly Christian or Catholic book. The characters pray when they’re in tough situations and there’s also a conversion of sorts when the con man has a change of heart and decides to care for the young boys who come into his custody.

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According to the Star-Ledger Staff, Archbishop Myers, 65, said most of the money from the book will probably go into college funds for his nearly three dozen nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

And I was worried about the lack of good fiction pleasure reading for this summer... I guess Ender's Game is going to have to wait a little bit longer.