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Names: speculative fiction
The Stories That Matter
âItâs like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. . . . Those were the stories that stayed with you.â ~ Samwise Gamgee
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Gillian Bronte Adams
The Undefined Unity Of Speculative Fiction
On the surface speculative fiction seems fractured into a thousand pieces, which undoubtedly explains the numerous small enclaves of speculative writers and fans that exist in cyberspace.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Perseverance and Philippians 2:12-13, Part 2
If you are at all familiar with the difficult time Christian speculative fiction has had getting a foothold in the market, you understand our need to persevereâboth as readers and as authors.
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Robert Treskillard
Spec Faith Winter Writing Challenge Finals
I’ve reposted their entries below, followed by the official poll to determine the 2013 winner. You will be able to vote only once for only one entry to determine who will receive the $25 gift card to either Amazon or Barnes and Noble. The poll closes at midnight (Pacific time), Sunday, January 20.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Why Fiction Is The Wrong Vehicle For TheologyâA Rebuttal
Rather than shying away from the depiction of âtheologyââby which I mean knowledge about Godâin speculative fiction, I think Christian writers should embrace the challenge. In saying this, however, I do not believe all stories must show all the truth contained in the Bible, nor do I believe that our stories must affirm all Biblical moral values (as if Christians even agree on what those are).
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Holidays And Celebrations
J. K. Rowling was not alone in making use of this-world holidays. C. S. Lewis created a powerful, and Christian, message in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by referencing the fact that Narnia suffered under a never-ending winter–always winter and never Christmas.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Voting And Speculative Fiction
I don’t see democracy held up in fantasies or in science fiction as The Answer to the ills of the world. Rather, it seems as if democracy is not an option or it has led to a despotic take over, a la Rome or, in modern times, Germany. The Answer to the ills of society seems instead to be either the benevolent rule of a King or hero, or the anarchy of the individual.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Readers And Reviews
Some people are intimidated by the whole writing reviews process. Since Spec Faith has added the review component to our library, I thought it might be helpful to look at writing reviews briefly, in the hopes that more readers will brave the waters of influence and post their thoughts here and elsewhere on the web.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Stepping Stones & One Angry Lady
We canâand oftentimes shouldâexamine speculative fiction ourselves. We should consider the good and the bad they offer. We should consider the lessons they teach and the journeys they take the reader on. And whatever our prayerful conclusions, we must acknowledge that the printed word is always a perfect springboard for discussion.
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Shannon Dittemore
Speculative Death: Life and Death Among The Immortals
Immortality would be paradise, right?
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Fred Warren
Why Speculative, Now?
I love that Iâm providing an option that offers a little light, in a very dark sector of publishing. Seriously, head to B&N and youâll see the shelves. There are vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, half-angels, half-demons, dark angels, trolls, etc. Why are kids drawn to these characters?
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Lisa T. Bergren
Dreaming At The Crossroads
The first glory of speculative fiction is to imagine things that do not exist. The second is to ponder things that do. The endless possibilities are captivating — Elves and aliens, distant planets and hidden realms, the power of unbounded technology and the inscrutable laws of faerieland. At the center of these foreign things is everything human and divine.
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Shannon McDermott
Speculative Love, Part 6: Love Does Not Compute
By way of closing this series on love in speculative fiction, I wanted to talk briefly about a quality of love that makes it problematical for science fiction in particular: love is not logical.
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Fred Warren
Speculative Love, Part 5: Father Issues
Our barn-burner discussion of the non-spec-fic movie, C0urageous, reminded me (thanks, Stephen) that I haven’t talked about another sort of love (or lack thereof) we often find in speculative stories: parental love. More specifically, paternal love. Fathers are most often […]
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Fred Warren
Speculative Love, Part 4: Alien Love
The issue was bound to come up once people started writing science fiction stories. You’ve got humans, you’ve got aliens, you’ve got robots–put them together in a dark room without parental supervision and you get… Eww. It’s revolting, it’s fascinating, it’s gooey, it’s radioactive…It’s alien love!
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Fred Warren
Speculative Love, Part 3: Standing The Test Of Time
By way of wrapping up last week’s discussion of romantic love in science fiction, or the lack thereof, I want to highlight a sub-genre that seems to grasp the power of the emotional bond between a man and woman devoted to each other: The time-travel story.
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Fred Warren
Speculative Love, Part 1: No Greater Love
When I introduced this series last week, Galadriel made what I thought was a rather perceptive comment: “I donât understand the point of a âspeculative love â story…” Indeed. What’s speculative about love? Nothing.
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Fred Warren
Speculative Love: An Introduction
No, this is not a manual for exobiological reproduction, alien mating rituals, or human-vampire hybridization. My apologies if that is what you expected when you arrived here. Given that the name of this blog is Speculative Faith, on which topic we spend […]
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Fred Warren
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