When I saw that A Cast of Stones – showcased this week in the CSFF blog tour – was listed as adult fantasy, it made me happy. Maybe unduly happy. I was glad for the adult label for the reason that the majority of the speculative books I’ve recently read are labeled YA or younger….
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CSFF Blog Tour: Captives
There are two worlds, separate of their own choosing. In the Safe Lands, all is pleasure and comfort and convenience, greased by the omnipresent wonders of technology – except for the thin plague, and until the time of liberation. In little Glenrock, life is harder and the rules are stricter – but there is the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Storm
At the end of the world, you should expect to have some problems. Tyranny, intrigue, drought, a biological superweapon, Big Brother watching you – it all gathers into a perfect storm. In Storm, Logan Langly continues his fight against DOME, his search for answers. He sees more of the big picture than nearly everyone who…
CSFF Blog Tour: Sneak
When you are a refugee from an evil government and its secret police, when your ambition is to pull a prison break at a fortress of a prison, when you are variously counted a criminal, a traitor, an outcast, and a target – what do you do? Well, for starters, you sneak. Sneak is the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Swipe
Logan Langly is afraid. He’s afraid of the dark, of crowds, of empty spaces behind him. He’s afraid of footsteps and shadows in the street; he’s afraid of eyes he’s never seen, but always feels. Most of all, he’s afraid of getting the Mark. The Mark is the passport to adulthood, granting the right to…
CSFF Blog Tour: Cleansing Legends
These past few days, as the blog tour has been reviewing and debating Merlin’s Blade, I have been reminded of Walt Disney’s Sword in the Stone. I don’t know what that tells you about my frame of reference, but there you have it. Merlin’s Blade and Sword in the Stone are vastly dissimilar; any exhaustive…
CSFF Blog Tour: Merlin’s Blade
The blind son of the village blacksmith cannot, perhaps, expect too much. Even a conversation with the young, sweet-voiced harpist seems at the outer limits of hope. But hope Merlin does. He even tries. So his troubles begin. But soon enough the wreckage of that long afternoon will shrink into unimportance. Ancient powers are rising…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Myth of Arthur
Say, have you thought what manner of man it is Of whom men say “He could strike giants down”? Or what strong memories over time’s abyss Bore up the pomp of Camelot and the crown. And why one banner all the background fills, Beyond the pageants of so many spears, And by what witchery in…
CSFF Blog Tour: Broken Wings
The truth, when uncovered, can cause a lot of trouble. Brielle knows this, after all the chaos stirred up when Damien discovered the secret of her eyes and Jake’s hands. That trouble is now on the back-burner, where it’s simmering to a boil. In the meantime, Brielle has enough to handle with the truth the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Other Mills
Yesterday I mentioned G. K. Chesterton’s opinion that pagans practiced demonic rites because they knew they were terrible. Today I will provide excerpts from The Everlasting Man where he wrote this. This passage also touches on the issue of magic in Christian fiction, which Becky Miller raised in her post. I believe that Christians who…