OWNING THE UNKNOWN

by Robert Charles Wilson

Pitchstone Publishing
(www.pitchstonebooks.com)
2023, 203 pages, $17.95

ISBN 978-1-63431-242-4

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SF author Robert Charles Wilson has been grappling with his own attitude toward any type of organized religion. He prefers the Baghdad of religious, held by SF convention attendees, who are almost Masonic in the way they believe.

These essays, and a couple of short stories, round out Wilson’s purpose for this thoughtful, sensible collection.

“In this book I’ve tried to describe how a reluctance to commit to the religious beliefs that were urged on me as a child ultimately helped foster a career as a writer and an ongoing fascination with the debate around atheism, agnosticism and the idea of God.” (From Page 143.)

OWNING makes you describe and analyze your own religious mindset, questioning ever more so what the human condition has been grappling with for at least 100,000 years, and perhaps more. It is fun and thought-provoking.