I liked The God-Hater. I thought I’d say that before I devoted a post to how it tripped over a peeve of mine. The book has an important subplot revolving around corporate warfare – and that’s not a figure of speech. Myers called corporations the “warring nations of today”. I’ve seen this in science fiction…
Month: February 2011
CSFF Blog Tour: The Very Antithesis of a Mechanism [Spoilers]
“Not wanting to build a mere clocklike mechanism, you inadvertently – in your own punctilious way – created that which was possible, logical and inevitable, that which became the very antithesis of a mechanism …” “Please, no more!” – Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad Three stories. “The universe is infinite yet bounded.” So begins the Seventh…
CSFF Blog Tour: The God-Hater
(Note: In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.) People don’t like Nicholas Mackenize. And there’s no love lost, because he doesn’t like people. But he saves his real hatred for religion. He is – loudly and proudly – a God-hater. Of all the creatures…
Violence in the Bible and other Christian books
A little while ago, the discussion on the CSFF blog tour turned to the violence, or lack of it, in Donita Paul’s Dragons of the Valley. Becky LuElla Miller wrote a couple posts about violence in Christian fiction, and particularly fantasy. I’ve decided to throw in a couple thoughts of my own. It can be…
The Old Lobster Trick
To this day, I don’t know why they call it the lobster shift. They ought to call it the mental-illness shift, because when you work overnight long enough and sleep all day long enough, your skin gets bad and you’re always pale and you find you have two modes, depression and anxiety. Peggy Noonan, What…