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Win a Copy of Thomas Locke’s ‘Enclave’ from Revell Books

Through this Friday, Feb. 15, you can enter our free drawing at Lorehaven.com. · E. Stephen Burnett

Io: Pest Control

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

Lorehaven’s Winter 2018 Issue Will Be Home for Christmas

Lorehaven Magazine’s fourth issue will hit cyber-stands weeks before Christmas. · E. Stephen Burnett

One in a Million

What if parallel worlds do exist? Does that mean there is a world out there where Adam didn’t sin? · Mark Carver

Mind Games

Readers are [often] confronted with dystopian futures in which young characters are constantly being manipulated and used against their will. · Rebecca Bruner

Robots and Religion

What if a robot decided to go to church? · Mark Carver

In a Mirror Dimly

What would Christianity and a highly-digitized church look like in the future? · 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

An Empty Shell

Man’s best efforts to perfect the body will ultimately burn away with the rest of the fallen world, and God will restore everything to greater glory and harmony than anything man could ever devise. · Mark Carver

Mega City One

The innocent exist only until they inevitably become perpetrators…Guilt and innocence is a matter of timing. · Mark Carver

Dun Dun Dun Dun Da-Dun Dun Da-Dun…

Hitler, and the whole Nazi Reich, were the perfect bad guys. Homogeneous (by their own efforts), sharply dressed in intimidating uniforms, a very eye-catching logo and distinct greeting gesture (quite the opposite of “Live Long and Prosper”), and a coldly mechanical and unstoppable war machine bent on global domination *evil laugh.* You can’t write a better fictitious villain or enemy if you tried. · Mark Carver

The Military, Veterans, And Speculative Fiction

In thinking about the military, I had to wonder about the place of the military in speculative stories. Perhaps most famous are the Storm Troopers of Star Wars, but other stories, particularly dystopian fantasy such as Hunger Games, includes a strong military—as part of the side of evil. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Six Famous Characters Christians Can Appropriate

Here are six handy hashtags to help Christians appropriate popular culture for the faith. · E. Stephen Burnett

The Price Of Sacrifice

Sacrifice is a key theme in stories. I was reminded of this during this past weekend, when my family was watching Lord of the Rings. It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen the movies, and as I watched the […] · Zac Totah

‘To Go Against The Church Is To Go Against God’

In Hollywood, the church is the ultimate “no-fun zone.” Cold, calculating, powerful, vigilant, a wet blanket on anything pleasurable. An institution to be rebelled against. · 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

Who Cares About Extraterrestrials?

I certainly have no problem with people who write science fiction. I consider it to be a type of fantasy, though. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Stories And Human Nature

What I find fascinating about these three movies is the theme that runs through them—unlikeable characters depicting marriage as psychological warfare; evil is real and we can’t get rid of it; and “good” removed leaves evil to fend for—and against—itself. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

If It’s Fiction . . .

Truth in stories is a tricky thing. On the story-telling level, often referred to as realism, readers need to believe in what’s taking place. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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