A word of caution to those who might see Imaginative Conservative contributor and philosophy professor Siobhan Nash-Marshall’s new novel with its drawing of a beautiful reddish dragon emitting a wreath of blue smoke over a black-and-white New York skyline: this modern-day telling of St. George is not going to be the kind of thing to read to your nine-year-old. For that, I would recommend Michael Lotti’s St. George and the Dragon (CreateSpace, 2014), which depicts George as a Roman military officer who discovers Christian faith on leave from the Legion and fights a supernatural but very flesh-and-blood dragon.
If you’re looking for something for yourself or to give your nineteen-year-old to read—and I could see this short tale being used successfully in a high school or college philosophy class—George is for you. Like Lotti’s St. George, this one does indeed face a dragon—rather, the Dragon—but only after undergoing a discovery of faith that is simultaneously a discovery of the philosophical lies and half-truths that have wreathed the world in a spiritual smoke.
See the full article by David Deavel, November 14, 2022