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The Symbolic Nature of Sci-fi Apocalyptic Disaster Films

The symbolic nature of apocalyptic sci-fi movies point to an underlying thread of biblical precepts. · Parker J. Cole

Prospect: Why I Like Nobledark or Grimbright Better than Cheerful and Corrupt

Prospect is a movie I’d recommend over Rim of the World. I both review Prospect and say why I like its type of tale better. · Travis Perry

Free Original Story World Ideas, Part 4: Future AI-Domesticated Breeds of Humans

Imagine AIs take over the world–then domesticate humans into different breeds–then disappear… · Travis Perry

Top Ten Most Original Speculative Fiction Story Worlds, Part 1

On a list of most original story worlds, which would make the top ten? But what makes original story worlds so interesting in the first place? · Travis Perry

A Look At Fatalism and a Killer Virus in Twelve Monkeys

This posts dives into the film and TV series Twelve Monkeys and its predecessors and asks what we can learn from this story and the Bible about pandemics and fate. · Travis Perry

2020 Science Fiction Predictions

Science fiction in many forms laid down predictions for what the year 2020 would bring. What did they get wrong? What’s close to being right? · Travis Perry

The Sky is Falling

As technology and planning improves, death and destruction is mitigated by degrees, but the fact remains that we are still at the mercy of the Earth in all aspects. · Mark Carver

Does Family Enhance Female Heroes?

Was Mark Carver’s post on Speculative Faith yesterday right about a need to have more families with children in speculative fiction? In particular, would children benefit female heroes? · Travis Perry

How Would the American Church Handle an EMP?

It’s obvious that the modern church, particularly in the USA, is very high-tech. Podcasts, streaming sermons, tithing kiosks, apps, etc., are everywhere. Whether this is good or bad is neither here nor there as far as this article is concerned. […] · Mark Carver

Io: Pest Control

So how does speculative entertainment treat the problem of these supposed human pests? Get rid of ’em. · Mark Carver

Dude, Where’s My Apocalypse?

Despite what preppers and conspiracy theorists and morons who drive vehicles with “Zombie Response Team” decals might imagine, there is nothing cool about a global nuclear apocalypse. · Mark Carver

Down With the Sickness

The biggest threat to human existence rarely gets news coverage: it’s not North Korea, global warming, or white privilege; it’s disease. · Mark Carver

Why I Quit Watching ‘Game Of Thrones’ and ‘The Walking Dead’

Let me tell you why I quit two of the most popular TV shows of the 21st century, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. · Mark Carver

The Pox? How Delightful, The Pox!

The apocalyptic horror that the Black Death unleashed upon the world is incomprehensible in our super-sanitized modern times, even though our entertainment is rife with zombies and bioterrorism and innocuous viruses that end up wiping out most of the population. · Mark Carver

No Rest For The Weary

Nothing offers us the sanctuary we thought it would when we first laid eyes on it. But we keep looking, and we know that we cannot stop or we will perish. · Mark Carver

Hope And Hopelessness In Speculative Fiction

When the imagination is separated from spiritual reality, it seems to stall on the bleak and the horrible. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Christians and The Can-Do Apocalypse

God is still God even if society goes down the toilet, and He doesn’t stop loving us or providing for us. · Mark Carver

Throwing In The Towel

Despite what we see and read, a zombie apocalypse would not be fun. At all. · Mark Carver

Start Your Engines: The End Is Nigh!

“Mad Max: Fury Road” is the latest in a long journey of post-apocalyptic stories that go straight back to the Bible. · Mark Carver

Review – A Time To Die

The government of the United States of the East, where this story takes place, is strict in enforcing (with Enforcers) certain laws of the land, most prominently that individuals must produce their clocks—a physical device that has been coded for them and counts down the years, days, hours, and seconds to their death. Anyone without a clock is branded a Radical and duly punished. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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