60,000 Books and a Few Toy Bananas

***Note from CAF: The first “skinner” is our very own Court Skinner, who occasionally posts here and was been named Solari Hero on numerous occasions***

By Jay London

Brother Guy Consolmagno ’74, SM ’75, a Jesuit and an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, was a first-year student at Boston College when he first visited the MIT Science Fiction Society (MITSFS) library. He quickly transferred to MIT.

“Visiting that library for the first time was one of the greatest days of my life,” Consolmagno says. “Science fiction reminds you that science is fun—it’s the best adventure anyone could have. I asked myself, ‘How could I be anywhere else?’”

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