LegendFiction Founder Dominic de Souza on Faith and Storytelling

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Dominic de Souza is the founder of LegendFiction, a writing community for Catholics and Orthodox Christians to share their love of faith and fantastic fiction. This October, LegendFiction is holding its third annual online convention, LegendHaven. In this discussion, Dominic shares his thoughts about imagination, evangelization, and storytelling in community.

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Thomas Salerno

: You’ve started a vibrant, growing community of Christian storytellers called LegendFiction. What were some of the stories that formed your imagination as a child and a young adult?

Dominic de Souza: I don’t know what it is, but there’s something so riveting and visceral about a number of H.G. Wells’ novels! I would go back to them again and again, and then try to iterate on them and retell them in my own ways. Wells is certainly one of those formative authors that got me really thinking. Arthur C. Clarke was another science fiction author I really enjoyed as a young teen.

Fairy tales and world mythology, along with the “modern mythology” of superheroes, were the stories that really resonated with me over the years. There’s just something about science fiction and fantasy that has called out to my soul throughout my life.