Today we are going to discuss three distinctly Christian subgenres of speculative fiction and why they are not always popular with Christian readers of speculative fiction – such as myself, and possibly you. Feel free to share. First, a disclaimer is in order. I am not, in principle, opposed to any of these genres, and…
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Grand Finale Blitz: Daughters of Northern Shores
On Tour with Prism Book Tours Book Tour Grand Finale for Daughters of Northern Shores By Joanne Bischof We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops you’ll find snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below: Launch – Note from the Author …As I reflect on the…
Spotlight: A Great Light
On Tour with Prism Book Tours Book Tour Grand Finale for A Great Light By Jennifer Ball We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops you can see snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below: Launch – Note from the Author Welcome! I’m so excited to…
Promises, Promises
Let’s talk about promises. To narrow the field, let’s talk about the promises the producers of culture make to us regarding their shows and movies and books. Now, I don’t mean advertising slogans (BEST OF THE YEAR), which are not promises so much as exercises in hope and hype. I mean the implicit promises of…
The Distinctive Pearl
I have occasionally had the thought that modern Christian fiction has not so much departed from mainstream publishing as stayed where everyone used to be. The idea was first prompted by the Clayton Standard, which promised clean stories and “intelligent censorship” to the people – more than two million a month – who read the…
Three Rules for Biblical Novels
It is natural – perhaps even inevitable – that the Bible inspire its own small genre of literature: biblical fiction, novels based on the people and events of the Bible. This idea has always appealed to me, but in reality, such novels have usually left me disappointed. I have read only two biblical novels that…
Prism Tours Grand Finale: The Cloak
A themed tour through Prism Book Tours. We’re blitzing the Grand Finale for THE CELTIC TOUR for The Cloak By Sarah Jennings Did you miss any of the tour? If so, go back and check it out now: Launch What do you hope readers take with them when they read your book? Of course, I…
CSFF Blog Tour: Sci-fi and MLP
And so the CSFF blog tour begins again. This month’s book is Numb, written by John Otte and published by Marcher Lord Press. Numb is science fiction, a distinction in Christian speculative fiction these days. At some point fantasy became the dominant subgenre, trailed by apocalyptic fiction, dystopians, the angel/demon stories, “supernatural thrillers” (basically horror,…
Review: Greetings From the Flipside
Hope Landon has had a hard time. When she was a little girl, her father disappeared mysteriously; when she was a teenager, her unique mother left her wondering if it was possible to drop dead from cringing too often. As an adult, she’s been stuck in the nothing-town Poughkeepsie. And now, just when she thinks…
CSFF Blog Tour: Imagining Angels
One sometimes wonders – on these tours where we debate angel books and angel characters – what angels make of it all. Possibly they don’t make much. Heaven has more important business. Anyway, they have surely noticed by now that gaps in human knowledge are often filled by human imagination. God has set limits so…