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Madelyn Reichert

Catholic sci-fi novel demonstrates the dangers of replacing faith with ideology

June 11, 2026
By Madelyn Reichert
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Commentary

Longtime fans of Karina Fabian’s “Rescue Sisters” stories will be quick to point out that the review of this month’s novel is a decade overdue. To them one can only reply that, after all, Christ gave the full day’s pay to the latecomers in his parable of the vineyard workers, and this reviewer is similarly grateful to have discovered such an excellent work of speculative fiction, even if a bit belatedly. Discovered, of course, being the operative word, as in any good work of science fiction.

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