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‘Amish Vampires’ on TV: Keep Calm and Carry On

“Amish Vampires in Space” got on TV for 15 seconds. Christian spec-fiction leaders react. · E. Stephen Burnett

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 humanity’s future development, is all well and good, but doesn’t every kid just want to blow the bad guys up and go home? · Steve Trower

Has Speculative Fiction Aborted Controversial Positions?

Can a speculative story interweave an issue like abortion into its plot effectively? Especially faith-based speculative fiction? · R. L. Copple

Honest Sci-Fi Honors Life

Our culture creates death-celebrating reality but life-celebrating fiction. · E. Stephen Burnett

Rebooting ‘Amish Vampires In Space’

The recent Marcher Lord Press sale left one novel with an identity crisis. · Kerry Nietz

Science Fiction Author Connie Willis

Connie Willis is the most-awarded writer of science fiction ever, with seven Nebula wins and eleven Hugos. Crazy, right? Three of those Hugo wins are for her novels in the time travel series. · Matt Mikalatos

The AViS Effect

Yes, give the gift of “Amish Vampires in Space” this Christmas, but this breakout novel could help boost the entire Christian fantasy/scifi genre. · Kerry Nietz

Science Of The Gaps

Science can help explain the how of things, it cannot theorize about why or who that is responsible. Yet people continue to use science to fill in the gaps of atheism and agnosticism. · R. L. Copple

The Importance Of Reading: A Biased Opinion

Bias doesn’t mean you’re wrong, as Neil Gaiman shows in a (London) Guardian interview. · Yvonne Anderson

Ender’s Film Has Game

Reviewer Melissa Ortega doubted filmmakers could adapt Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi story, but 15 minutes in, she changed her mind. · Melissa Ortega

Looking Over Your Shoulder

My current reads: spiritual warfare, Anne of Ingleside, A Cast of Stones, Amish Vampires in Space. What about you? · E. Stephen Burnett

On Christ and Pop Culture: Doctor Who’s Doctrine

CAPC’s 12-part series is exploring the deeper beauties and truths of the fantastic sci-fi stories. · E. Stephen Burnett

Explaining The Epic: ‘Amish Vampires In Space’

Author Kerry Nietz on how a running gag at conferences became his full-length novel, featuring Amish, versus vampires, naturally in space. · Kerry Nietz

News and Views: Ben-man, Gnosticism, The Doctor

Ben Affleck as Batman, Kathy Tyers reboots Gnostic notions, “Doctor Who” news, author Brett McCracken’s nonfiction “Gray Matters.” · E. Stephen Burnett

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 “incarnate” their love of fantastic fiction. · E. Stephen Burnett

Attack Of The ‘Cast A Woman Doctor’ Critics

Why are media elites (but not most fans) upset that “Doctor Who” did not cast a woman as the Twelfth Doctor? · E. Stephen Burnett

More Thoughts on Science and Fiction

Is the phrase “Christian sci-fi” really an oxymoron? · Yvonne Anderson

More Thoughts About Science and Speculation

Depending on the version you read, the word “science” occurs twice in the Scriptures. In Daniel 1:4, the Babylonians sorted through the Jewish boys they’d taken captive, hoping to find some they could train in their own ways. They looked […] · Yvonne Anderson

A Fantasy Character Looks At Science Fiction

Based on an early review of the book as “a solid bit of social science fiction,” the reader bought a copy, only to find he’d been hoodwinked. Righteously disgruntled, he wrapped up his resultant two-star review by saying, “Characters reciting […] · Yvonne Anderson
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