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Lorehaven’s New Fall 2020 Issue Has Released!
This web edition features fifteen new reviews of great Christian-made fantastical novels, such as our cover feature about the awardâwinning fantasy Seventh City.
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‘Firebird’ Author Kathy Tyers on Fantastical Truth: My Next Novel May Release in 2021
After the Firebird series and “Crystal Witness,” novelist Kathy Tyers returns to her spacefaring world for a new trilogy.
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Lorehaven’s Newest Issue and Podcast Celebrate The Best of Christian Fantasy
Lorehaven’s spring 2020 issue reviews the best of Christian fantasy, and our new podcast episode explores a classic spiritual warfare thriller.
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Six Years of Realm Makers
The author reflects back on what six years of the Realm Makers conference has meant to him.
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Travis Perry
Coming Soon: Lorehaven Book Clubs
How can you make fantasy, sci-fi, and other fantastical novels even better? Share them in Lorehaven Book Clubs.
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Realm Makers Presenters, Part 2 – Kathy Tyers
Kathy Tyers has also taken up the mantel of writing instructor. Having been certified as a classroom teacher after her graduation from Montana State University, she was not unfamiliar with the ins and outs of imparting information in a formal setting.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Enclave Marches On: Q and A With Steve Laube
Enclave Publishingâs owner shares an update about past, present and future of the Christian fantastical fiction publisher.
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In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Sing
Hard science fiction, the kind that takes its science very seriously and likes to contemplate the possible effect of technology on humanityâs future development, is all well and good, but doesnât every kid just want to blow the bad guys up and go home?
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News and Views: Ben-man, Gnosticism, The Doctor
Ben Affleck as Batman, Kathy Tyers reboots Gnostic notions, âDoctor Whoâ news, author Brett McCrackenâs nonfiction âGray Matters.â
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Realm Makers: Go Beyond The Blogs
Realm Makers offered more than cosplay and shared fandom. It gave deep doctrinal magic and a chance for Christian fans to better âincarnateâ their love of fantastic fiction.
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The Clive Staples Award For Christian Speculative Fiction
For those in the US, blessings on this Memorial Day. For all of us, an update on the Clive Staples Award–specifically three announcements
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The Road Not Taken
Back at the tail end of 1998, my buddy John Olson and I began thinking about writing a novel about Mars. Why Mars? Because it looked to us like humans might finally be on the road to the Red Planet […]
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Space Opera, Sci-fi, SF or âskiffyâ?
Does the genre term “sci-fi” inevitably connote pulp stories, whose covers feature men wearing biceps and spacesuits, women wearing little, and horrifying invader robots wearing women? Or have perceptions been changing?
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Critiquing Critics Of Christian Fiction, Part 3
Many Christian readers have learned to put up with preachiness in secular stories, while some non-Christians (or even professing Christians) canât stand hearing real Christianity repeated in a work of fiction, even with artistic excellence.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Readers, Writers And What Each Understands
A (lengthy) discussion broke out this weekend prompted by Friday’s interview with Spec Faith’s special guest, Kathy Tyers, author of Firebird. Much of the conversation centered on one commenter’s view of Ms. Tyers’ implied hatred of Jews in the Firebird […]
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Exploring Doctrine Through Fiction, With Kathy Tyers
Author Kathy Tyers, pioneer in Christian futuristic fiction, discusses how theology informs her storytelling.
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Kathy Tyers
Critiquing Critics Of Christian Fiction, Part 2
We’ve all heard it, and often said it: “Christian novels are too preachy.” But what do we mean by that? Some critics say “preachy” only to mean “Christians speaking and acting as Christians naturally do,” and therefore can’t be pleased.
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Another Marcher Lord: Kathy Tyers
The author of multiple Star Wars novels and the sci-fi trilogy Firebird, Kathy Tyers, is coming to Christian fantasy-and-sci-fi indie publisher Marcher Lord Press. This comes from (among other sources) TitleTrakk.com. From yesterday: As [Marcher Lord Press’s] publisher and acquisitions […]
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