I don’t have a whole lot to say, but, well, here I am talking anyway. This is the last day of the last CSFF blog tour for the Bright Empires series, and I wanted to wrap up with a final note – a post-script, if you will. The Bright Empires series would not be enjoyed…
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CSFF Blog Tour: The Fatal Tree
The universe, they say, is constantly expanding. If it ever stops expanding, it will then begin to contract. Once it begins to contract, it will eventually collapse, and that will be the End of Everything. Everything is a lot, especially in the multiverse. In The Fatal Tree, the conclusion of Stephen Lawhead’s five-part Bright Empires…
CSFF Blog Tour: Intrepid Explorers, Intrepid Bloggers
It was four years ago that Thomas Nelson published The Skin Map, by Stephen Lawhead, and so began the Bright Empires series. Every fall since then, a new Bright Empires book has come out: The Bone House, The Spirit Well, The Shadow Lamp. We of the CSFF blog tour reviewed every one, boldly following the…
CSFF Blog Tour: To Speak Randomly
I thought that, for my final considerations on The Shadow Lamp and the Bright Empires series, I would use a kind of essay format, as this would let me bring up all sorts of random observations without having to coherently connect them. Feel free to answer any or all questions in the comments: I won’t…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Shadow Lamp
Can you think of anything more frightening than the End of Everything, the total collapse of the universe? I can. I saw that TV show where the aliens sent ships to burn up every nation on Earth, city by city. If we’re all going to die, the universe collapsing frankly sounds like an easier way…
CSFF Blog Tour: Anniversary Edition
So the CSFF blog tour begins again. This month’s subject is The Shadow Lamp, the fourth book in Stephen Lawhead’s Bright Empires series. I’ve enjoyed every blog tour I’ve done with the CSFF, but I always have a special fondness for the books of the Bright Empires series. This is, in large part, because of…
Review: Tuck
Blood is thicker than water. That’s why you can’t get rid of your relatives. It’s also why you can generally expect certain things from them – like a place to spend the holidays, or rent when you absolutely need it. Or, maybe, troops to fight your guerrilla insurgency. Maybe. In Tuck, the long war has…
CSFF Blog Tour: Proceeding by Inquiry
When the Bright Empires series began with The Skin Map, I found the religious element to be scant. It grew stronger in The Bone House, a quiet but steady undercurrent throughout the novel. In The Spirit Well, religion has a stronger presence yet. This comes mainly from the Zetetic Society, a group devoted to exploring…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Spirit Well
There are certain things you know. The ground is solid, death is death, yesterday is past, and tomorrow is coming. But if ever you cross the ley lines and slip into the muliverse, you may end up deciding that you never really knew anything. In The Spirit Well, Stephen Lawhead continues the grand adventure of…
Hold That Thought
In my reading at Speculative Faith and Becky Miller’s blog, I have recently come across musings over whether or not Christian speculative fiction is “weird”. This has left me pondering a slightly different question: Why is it called weird? It occurred to me that the answer to that question can be found, in some degree,…