Gabriel Mckee

Author and Librarian

Gabriel Mckee is a librarian for collections and services at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is a coeditor of Theology and the DC Universe. His prior works include The Gospel According to Science Fiction, Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, and Evermore: The Persistence of Poe.

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Books

Science fiction, Project Blue Book, and the beginnings of the UFO craze

In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel McKee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”