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Fantastical books for middle grade readers!

Best for older children ages 8–12
Beneath the Swirling Sky, Elizabeth Groening
Skate the Seeker by Jeff Ayers
The Red Door, Chris Solaas
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  • How Do We Discern Good and Bad ‘Magic’?
  • Three Fantastical Christian Stories to Help Your Kids Head Back to School
  • The Death and Rebirth of Magic in Children's Fantasy

New books for teens + young adults

Best for readers ages 13–18—and beyond!
The Looking-Glass Illusion, Sara Ella
The Eternity Gate, Katherine Briggs
Calligraphy Guild, R. M. Archer
young men’s · young women’s · all fiction
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  • Beware the Real Danger of Entertainment
  • Christian-Made Fantasy Can Shine Light in the Grimdark
  • How to Disciple Your Kids with Dangeous Books
  • How Reading Epic Fantasy Helps Me Be Brave
  • Engaging Fictional Violence in Our Real Worlds
  • Engaging That @&*% Our Stories Often Say

New fiction for adults

Challenging novels for wise readers 18 and up.
The Looking-Glass Illusion, Sara Ella
Light of Eidon, Karen Hancock
Wandering, Loren G. Warnemuende
men’s fiction · women’s fiction · all fiction
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  • Even If We Like Fantasy and Sci-Fi, We Can Still Practice Accidental Legalism
  • How God Uses Story Villains for Our Good
  • Sensual Scenes in Fiction Pose Unique Temptations for Women
  • Stories With Bad Ideas Can Still Help Us Grow
  • Engaging Fictional Violence in Our Real Worlds
  • Engaging That @&*% Our Stories Often Say

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  • Let’s Not Excuse Movie and TV Porn For the Sake of ‘Redemptive’ Stories
  • Christians Can’t Consistently Blame Leftist Fiction While Pushing Our Own Propaganda

The Little Mermaid’s Live-Action Remake Fares Better Than Critics Forecast

Some new songs may flounder, but Ariel’s voice and Triton’s character redeem the 2023 Disney film. · Marian Jacobs
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Shannon McDermott is the author of the fantasy novel The Valley of Decision, as well as the futuristic The Last Heir and the Sons of Tryas series. To learn more about her and her work, visit her website, ShannonMcDermott.com.
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Unrealism In Art

Today I am going to share a list of unrealistic things in fiction. And by unrealistic, I mean in the absolute sense of “not like reality”. · Shannon McDermott

The Biases Of Art

Art has one very clear bias, and that is a bias against untheatrical things. · Shannon McDermott

The True Form Of Fairy-Tale

J. R. R. Tolkien appealed to reality in justifying joy in fairy stories. It’s revealing as to what he thought of fairy tales – and of reality. · Shannon McDermott

Angels Of The Bible and Other Books

Given the immovable place of angels in speculative fiction, I thought it would be interesting to examine what the Bible says concerning them. · Shannon McDermott

Leaf By Niggle, Heaven In Stories

A couple weeks ago I read Leaf by Niggle, which is not as silly as it sounds. · Shannon McDermott

‘Storm Siren,’ Angst and All, Impressed Me From The Beginning

Mary Weber’s debut fantasy is imaginative, beautifully written and gives life to strange things both wonderful and sinister.

Memorable Fathers

In honor of Father’s Day, a list of memorable fathers in speculative fiction. · Shannon McDermott

Seeing In The Cave

If you want to know what darkness is, your best object of study is the light. · Shannon McDermott

We Are (Not) The Hollow Men

Conflict is vital to stories. So, in a way, is suffering. · Shannon McDermott

A Worthy Opponent

Balaam was, in his way, the most impressive of the Old Testament villains. · Shannon McDermott

Cinderella: Something Old, Something New

When I first heard that Disney was doing a live-action remake of “Cinderella,” I thought they could not have chosen a better fairy tale to remake.

Personal Predilections

A book’s quality is not measured by how much it appeals to us personally. · Shannon McDermott

A Rich Web

The web of rich and potent customs surrounding Easter is a testament to how profoundly religion molds culture. And it makes me wonder again why religion is so neglected in speculative fiction as an element of world-building. · Shannon McDermott

An Airing

I thought that, this Wednesday, we could all have fun talking about the things that bother us. · Shannon McDermott

A Little Imagination

Jonah was wrong. But he was eminently understandable. It just takes a little imagination. · Shannon McDermott

The Image Of Man

We are not, in any deep sense, “represented” in our stories by specific types of people, but simply by people. · Shannon McDermott

Aliens, Elves, Angels

“Does Jesus save aliens?” is not as earth-shattering a question as some people seem to think. But maybe it’s a more complex one. · Shannon McDermott

Once Upon A Critique

Once Upon A Time needs to be stiffened up with some good, hard logic, but it still has its merits. · Shannon McDermott

Feeling Christmas

What leaches joy from Christmas is sometimes no more complicated than the fact that we have grown used to it. · Shannon McDermott

The Christian Problem With Magic, Part 2

We must be careful not to have a superficial understanding of what the Bible means by “magic”. · Shannon McDermott

The Christian Problem With Magic, Part 1

Where, exactly, does this leeriness in the Christian community toward magic and fantasy come from? From the Bible. · Shannon McDermott

Review: Big Hero 6

“Big Hero 6” rides the wave of Disney’s second Renaissance. · Shannon McDermott

The Fine Line

Here is the question: At what point does a necessary attention to sober facts degenerate into an unhealthy fascination with darkness? · Shannon McDermott

You Are …

A book reviewer is not an avenging angel, a warrior in an ideological battle, or a corrections officer. · Shannon McDermott

Keep The Salt, Shine The Light

The tension between preserving and going forth is found in the Sermon on the Mount, where Christ commands us both to keep our saltiness and to shine our light. · Shannon McDermott

Into The Hands Of Amateurs

Through Amazon and Goodreads, through blogs and a multitude of outlets, book reviewing has gotten out of the hands of professionals. Now a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, is done by unpaid amateurs. But why did we take on the job? · Shannon McDermott

What It Profits A Man

“Return of the Jedi” is a profound film about spiritual danger and spiritual triumph. · Shannon McDermott

The Esther Syndrome

Our perception of stories is easily colored by our expectations and assumptions. Call it the Esther Syndrome. · Shannon McDermott

A Superstition Transformed

An old superstition transformed into a new story · Shannon McDermott

Three Reasons Why

Three reasons why romance novels predominate Christian fiction. · Shannon McDermott

An Unfolding Saga

The Wingfeather Saga unfolds through four books into an intense and beautiful story. · Shannon McDermott

Deafness, Good and Bad

Christians shouldn’t shut out the criticism of the world, but we shouldn’t give it too much weight, either. · Shannon McDermott

‘The Strange Man’ Is Intense and Christian

This story has too much violence and creepiness for my taste, but the humor, briskness, and profundity of this “shaping-up story” makes it an enjoyable read.

The Echoes Of Christmas

God is the Author of the Christmas story. I wonder how far its echoes can, and should, reach in all stories. What would a story look like, written in a spirit that, like Scrooge, honors Christmas and keeps it all the year? · Shannon McDermott

Dreaming At The Crossroads

The first glory of speculative fiction is to imagine things that do not exist. The second is to ponder things that do. The endless possibilities are captivating — Elves and aliens, distant planets and hidden realms, the power of unbounded technology and the inscrutable laws of faerieland. At the center of these foreign things is everything human and divine. · Shannon McDermott
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