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Science Fiction: Joe Ollmanns

Joe Ollmanns: Joe Ollmanns new graphic novel is titled Science Fiction Conundrum, $18 , but it is about the tension between faith and fact : Faith accepts as fact what scientists consider incredible, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Montreal author draws, scripts, the story of Mark Sett Go should be added , a mildly depressed, middle-aged, non-fiction-reading, science teacher, who likes his job, but finds his teen pupils difficult to reach, but who enjoys pleasant domesticity with his common-law spouse, Susan Cale, head cashier at a Montreal supermarket and Ollmanns implicit argument is that all religious belief is a form of science fiction, but his deliberately unresolved narrative also suggests that such belief can still be true, though impossible to communicate to non-believers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.