science fiction and fantasy book news & reviews
If you do not object to speculative fiction with an intentional Christian/family friendly bent, then you might like to check out Digital Dragon Magazine. Janet of The Walrus Said pointed this out to me.
Digital Dragon Magazine is the brainchild of T.W. Ambrose, built around the desire for more venues for family-friendly and faith-based fantasy and [...]
# Genre: Historical Fiction; Historical Fantasy
# Hardcover: 464 pages
# Publisher: Thomas Nelson
# Publication Date: February 17, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1595540873
# ISBN-13: 978-1595540874
# Author Website: Stephen R. Lawhead
Tuck is author Stephen Lawhead’s third book in the King Raven trilogy and while it is worth reading to see how the plot ends, much of the novel is just [...]
This is the third and last day of the book blog tour for Cyndere’s Midnight. The following is a list of places you can find Overstreet in his other personas.
Jeffrey Overstreet’s Web site – http://lookingcloser.org/
Jeffrey Overstreet’s blog – http://lookingcloser.org/category/journal/
Jeffrey Overstreet at Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Overstreet/42902959
On Myspace: http://blogs.myspace.com/jeffreyoverstreet
Christianity Today movie critic
Rotten Tomatoes
Image Magazine (or do a [...]
This is the second in a three day book blog tour for Cyndere’s Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet.
* Genre: Literary Fantasy, High/Epic Fantasy
* ISBN: 1400072530
* ISBN-13: 9781400072538
* Format: Paperback, 336pp
* Publisher: Waterbrook Press
* Pub. Date: September 2008
* Series: The Auralia Thread
* Author Website
* Author Blog
Jeffrey Overstreet is the only author I know of that can actually [...]
For the next three days, I will be participating in a book blog tour for Cyndere’s Midnight, by Jeffrey Overstreet. In that vein, I thought I would repost a review I wrote of Jeff’s first book, Auralia’s Colors.
* Genre: Fantasy
* ISBN: 1400072522
* ISBN-13: 9781400072521
* Format: Paperback, 336pp
* Publisher: WaterBrook Press
* Pub. Date: September 2007
* Series: [...]
* Reviewed by Valerie Ottinger
* Genre: Thriller
* Paperback: 400 pages
* Publisher: B&H Fiction
* Publication Date: October 1, 2008
* ISBN-10: 0805447490
* ISBN-13: 978-0805447491
* Author Website
I tend to mentally categorize books as “library” books or “worth buying” books. If a book was average and not awful, I’m willing to read more books by the same [...]
This week’s topic is controversial, but worth discussing. Thanks to our bloggers for their considerate and thoughtful responses.
Does the very nature of science fiction (as opposed to fantasy) automatically preclude fair treatment of religion? Must religion always be seen as an outdated and outmoded way of thinking, or are there authors who can and have [...]
In the following article, I will be focusing on Christian SF&F, but this argument is valid for any ideology based subgenre.
It has been mentioned that Christian science fiction and fantasy ought not to be considered a subgenre of SF&F at all. It is, after all, associated with a particular ideology and/or belief system. Might as [...]
Mindflights follows the stated purpose of the publishers
Chris Walley is the author of The Lamb Among the Stars a series set in the far future that has a unique setting. His novel discusses good and evil within the context of Christian understanding, something very unlike its contemporaries. Walley was kind enough to answer of a few of my questions about his [...]
