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âThe Hobbitâ Story Group 6: Out Of The Frying-Pan Into The Fire
(How) do you plan to see âThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeyâ? Be prepared for the film to climax with an expanded version of the bookâs chapter 6, âOut of the Frying Pan Into the Fire.â
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E. Stephen Burnett
âThe Hobbitâ Story Group 4: Over Hill and Under Hill
Reviewers, publishers, and readers keep making up Middle-earth myths, including the notion that it canât have âstone-giants,â as mentioned in âThe Hobbitâ chapter 4.
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E. Stephen Burnett
What Makes Novels Mediocre?
How does sin influence our mediocre expectations? What makes reading novels a duty rather than a delight â or even makes you put down the book and refuse to read further?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Speculative Politics 2: Perspectives From Marc Schooley
Author Marc Schooley explains why he believes the Church has over-entangled itself in politics. Yet he agrees much with his fellow Marcher Lord Press author Kerry Nietz’s perspective about how stories and authors touch on politics.
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Marc Schooley
Reading Is Worship 6: Curing Weirdness-Idolatry
How can we fight inclinations to idolize âbeing weirdâ for its own sake? We must see fantasy âweirdnessâ as normal in the Bible (and even in our culture), ask God to help us reach out to critics, and remember why we love fantastic stories.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Reading Is Worship 5: Identifying Weirdness-Idolatry
Brothers and sisters: loving speculative stories is not about you. Or us. Or the genre. Or, especially, Being Weird. Thatâs especially vital to recall after last weekendâs controversy over cosplay at the ACFW awards banquet.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Share Your Crazy Conference Stories
Here at Speculative Faith, weâre reader-centric. But for those who have attended writersâ conferences such as ACFW, what crazy stories might you share?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Reading Is Worship 4: Craft-Idolatry
Before discussing industry changes, editors, and manuscript proposals, we must love Godâs Story and great stories more than their craft. Otherwise we may be vulnerable to other story-related idolatries.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Reviewing Speculative Faith Reviews
Writing more blog entries lamenting the lack of good Christian sci-fi and fantasy novels doesnât correct this problem. Instead, read Christian SF novels and write reviews. Not just for The Cause, but to help others worship God.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Beyond Inklings Imitations 1: Exploring The Source
Readers have so âcultifiedâ the Inklings that authors and publishers assume the only novels we want to read are imitations of Lewis or Tolkien.
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A. T. Ross
Challenging The Indie Imagination
For this epic-story reader, itâs hard to keep track of all the new independent Christian-speculative publishers. Wouldnât it better to combine some of them, at least for marketing? Several indie press-runners have already joined this conversation.
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E. Stephen Burnett
The Strange Case Of Nicheolas Bartleby
He loves speculative stories. But deep down he doesnât much care for actually sharing the joy in the best ways possible.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Content To Be A Niche
Do we as readers value Christian speculative fiction to the point of seeing it as a treasure? What if there were no more Christian speculative fiction tomorrow? No self-published e-books, no more POD Marcher Lord Press paperbacks, not any from Splashdown Books either, and none on the shelves of Christian or general market stores.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
For Writers: Embracing Multimedia In Writing
Author Keven Newsome to speculative writers: Everythingâs going multimediaâŠexcept books. But as the digital book age progresses, the technology will also progress. It is time for us writers to embrace multimedia.
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Keven Newsome
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading? What Christian speculative titles have you read in the last year or two? Have you written a review of those books, either here at Spec Faith as a comment to the title in our library or for one of the online outlets?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Imagine Thereâs No Christian SF Writing Blogs
Either my perception is limited or magnified, or Christian-speculative-fiction blogs really are overly focused on writers. Shouldnât the ratios of writersâ and readersâ material be reversed?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Please Quit Calling It âWeirdâ
Iâm not picking on those who call Christian speculative stories âweird.â But Christianity doesnât succeed because itâs Weird, but because itâs true. Our speculative stories should have a similar mission.
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E. Stephen Burnett
On The Back Cover 2
Do you ever pick up a good-looking novel to read its back cover, and find only endorsements? I prefer reading something about the actual story.
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E. Stephen Burnett
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