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The “Alien Work” Of God Part IV

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Not this blog series. At least, I hope none of you think that. But I’ve noticed a pattern. Whenever I sit down to write one of these columns, NASA announces that they’ve found more extra-solar planets. · John Otte

The “Alien Work” Of God Part I

No, I’m not talking about this kind of alien work of God. Instead, I want to talk about how it seems that I’ve always had aliens on the brain. I mentioned two weeks ago that my earliest forays into writing […] · John Otte

Why I Wrote The DarkTrench Saga

Now that I’m done writing The DarkTrench Saga (from Marcher Lord Press), I’ll talk about it. The three-volume futuristic series has had some interesting criticisms, but surprisingly, the strongest reproaches have come from the Christian community. · Kerry Nietz

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. · Fred Warren

Steve Rzasa on Scripture, Story, and Space Opera

Author Steve Rzasa (“The Word Reclaimed” and “The Word Unleashed”) talks his past journalism, present story efforts, and future fiction, touching also on community journalism, denominations, and sci-fi devices for interstellar travel. · Steve Rzasa

The Worldview Of Science Fiction

As anyone who frequents Spec Faith on a regular basis knows, I’m a fantasy writer. However, I can’t help but notice that science fiction, along with an amalgamation best termed science fantasy, is slowly on the rise. Interestingly, along with […] · Rebecca LuElla Miller

You Write Like A Girl

We’ve talked a lot here about a perceived feminine domination of Christian fiction in general, but does that extend into Christian speculative fiction–specifically science fiction? Or, is that flavor of literature as much a gentleman’s club for Christian writers as it seems to be for secular writers? · Fred Warren

Writing In The Doldrums

After his “Lamb Among the Stars” epic series, author Chris Walley shares what may be next, despite personal bouts with discouragement, distraction, and sense of displacement. How do Christian storytellers deal with these? · Chris Walley

Post-Apocalyptic And Dystopian Fiction

Christians are actually cutting-edge in this genre. But why is our culture currently focusing on ways we could reach The End? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Road Not Taken

Back at the tail end of 1998, my buddy John Olson and I began thinking about writing a novel about Mars. Why Mars? Because it looked to us like humans might finally be on the road to the Red Planet […] · Randy Ingermanson

Space Opera, Sci-fi, SF or ‘skiffy’?

Does the genre term “sci-fi” inevitably connote pulp stories, whose covers feature men wearing biceps and spacesuits, women wearing little, and horrifying invader robots wearing women? Or have perceptions been changing? · E. Stephen Burnett

Exploring Doctrine Through Fiction, With Kathy Tyers

Author Kathy Tyers, pioneer in Christian futuristic fiction, discusses how theology informs her storytelling. · Kathy Tyers

Dead Man Walking

What is it with Christians and zombies? · Fred Warren

Jill Williamson on Writing, ‘Darkness’ and Light In Fiction, Part 2

Part 2: Jill Williamson discusses her writing, completing the ‘Blood of Kings’ trilogy, darkness and light in fiction, and what is ahead for herself and the Christian visionary field. Also available in audio with our NEW podcast, The Portal. · E. Stephen Burnett
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