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Settling the Solar System in Science Fiction, part 2: Venus

Venus used to be a main destination for sci fi, inspiring Dagobah-like settings. But Venus could well be more like Bespin…in the clouds… · Travis Perry

A Santa Claus Non-Believer Discovers Tolkien’s Father Christmas Letters

I’ve just discovered Tolkien’s Letters From Father Christmas. I found them charming–but they also got me thinking about truth, tradition, and stories. · Travis Perry

Top Ten Most Original Speculative Fiction Story Worlds, Part 2

What are the top ten most original story worlds (or settings) for overtly Christian authors? This post lists ten possible choices! · Travis Perry

My Time in Calormen

I wind up talking about personal experience in the Middle East–and partially defending how C.S. Lewis portrayed Calormen. · Travis Perry

On Culture And Giving Offense Or Being Offensive

Are Christians ready to be marginalized further? Are we preparing to share the gospel regardless of how offensive the culture finds it? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Seven Ways to Deal With the Problem Magic Poses Christian Fantasy Writers

What is really is the problem with magic according to the Bible? How (and why) can Christian fantasy writers deal with this problem when creating stories? · Travis Perry

Favorite Authors

Authors can captivate a reader, maybe more than a genre does, but to keep their loyalty, an author needs to keep delivering. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What Does it Mean for a Story to be “Christian”?

There are at lease nine different ways to define a story’s relationship or lack thereof to Christianity (we’re counting 🙂 ). And that’s not all. · Travis Perry

Dreams of Other Worlds

Why do we have dreams of other worlds? Do fictional visions point to a reality beyond our own? · Travis Perry

Superheroes And Heroes As They Relate To God

In part I think the love of speculative fiction grows from the need in the heart of each one of us for a person stronger, better, more capable, committed, willing to put his life on the line for others. We long for rescue—for ourselves, for our community, for the world. We love the idea that Someone will bring justice when we see no hope, when we are convinced that the bad guys will win, when we see devastation wrecking havoc in the face of our helplessness. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Does Narnia “Rewrite” Christianity?

When something like Schnelbach’s article comes out, especially from a reputable fantasy source such as Tor, I suspect a number of readers have digested this idea that misrepresents Lewis’s views. Many may have even embraced it, so I think it’s imperative to take a stand against such an understanding that undermines a man known for his Christian worldview. And for his many fiction and non-fiction books that deal with Christianity. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Veterans Day: Mayhem And Its Meaning, A Reprise

While stories in the general market are not intentionally reflecting this spiritual reality, they nonetheless reveal the truth that the world is not as it should be, that there are forces of evil, seemingly insurmountable at times, against which forces of good must strive. Mayhem in speculative fiction also shows that the struggle isn’t just external. Mankind struggles against that part of ourselves that seems bewitched or entrapped or bound to a chair. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

C. S. Lewis and Sub-creation

Lewis and Tolkien both claimed that fantasy could reveal Truth in a way that reality fiction could not. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

A Simple Line

It is time to stop and ask ourselves: How much do bad adaptations of our favorite books really bother us? · Shannon McDermott

C. S. Lewis Fifty-five Years Later

Lewis showed me what a writer could do with fiction. He made me want to put truth in stories so that readers would grasp profound realities because of a simple line · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speculative Fiction Writer’s Guide to War, Part 2: Balance of Power

Balance of Power–a key factor in how nations reason through whether or not to go to war with each other, in both fact and fiction. · Travis Perry

C. S. Lewis Was Right

“I searched for ways out not because I was miserable, or lost, but because I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was more.” – V. E. Schwab · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Wretched Controversy

The longer this Wretched position sits there with only a brief flurry of opposition, the more deadly it becomes. What may have started out as an interesting concept to consider can quickly become a hardened conviction. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

If Donkeys Could Talk: The Point Of Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is known for . . . well, speculation. Writers ask the “what if” question in ways that break known boundaries. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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