Category: Fiction
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Whens and Wheres, According to Stephen Lawhead (CSFF Tour, Day 3)
A word of explanation is in order: you may have noticed that “Day 2” of this tour got skipped (for the first time ever, I’d like to point out). The sad fact is that my copy of the book arrived really, really late, and by the time it got here, it collided head-on with an…
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CSFF Tour: The Bone House (Day 1)
The Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog Tour is touring again! This month the featured title is The Bone House, Book 2 of the Bright Empires series. My review of the first book, The Skin Map, can be found here. Bright Empires is a many-layered story exploring the idea of “ley travel,” a way of…
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The Monster in the Hollows: A Review (Day 3)
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness is a whimsical adventure tale, funny, scary, inhabited by Fangs of Dang, crazy sock men, and genuine recipes for maggotloaf. North! Or Be Eaten, Book 2 of The Wingfeather Saga, is the classic journey story: a book of creatures, encounters, fascinating locales, and of course, coming…
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The Wingfeather Saga: A Briefish Overview (Day 2)
A boy who longs for freedom and adventure, who lives under an oppressive regime, who does not truly know who he is. A journey to strange lands full of strange creatures, one that is simultaneously a journey to discover the past and to shape the future. Beauty, tragedy, and wonder. Coming of age. Dragons, mysterious…
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CSFF Tour: The Monster in the Hollows (Day 1)
I promise that by Wednesday, I will actually write a review of The Monster in the Hollows. Getting this far has been a journey, let me tell you. First, there have been other Wingfeather Saga tours, which I always missed. I’m not sure why, but I did. Then there were all the glowing reviews, the…
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Review: Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?
Origins matter. Few answers are more enlightening that those that tell us where something—or someone—came from. Origins give us insight into the shape of reality, answering not only the what but the why. Even if you are a literalist* Bible reader (which I assume most of my readers are), you’ve no doubt heard people—maybe even…
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Review: Konig’s Fire
Sascha Konig is a brilliant chemist, a Nazi, and a good man. That, at least, is what he tells himself. He is, after all, an educated, literate man, an artist, a man of faith. That he must sometimes obey unspeakable orders does not change that. Ah, but, It is times such as these that we…
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Review: The Resurrection
The Reverend Ian Clark, pastor of a small church in Stonetree, California, has been hiding his resignation letter in his desk drawer for days, working up the nerve to call it quits on his position, his faith, and his dreams. For good. Haunted by past tragedy and his own personal failures, Ian lives up to…
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Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet (CSFF Tour, Day 3)
“It’s too late . . . I’ve come this far, and I’m not giving up now. Beauty is leading us home.” “You may find nothing at all. Or else a tyrant who takes away your freedom.” “And I may find the freedom to choose what is best and go on choosing it. All the time.…
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The Ale Boy’s Feast: My Review (CSFF Tour Day 2)
He tightened his picker-staff grip, desire rotting into resentment. Most creatures of the ground had vanished from the Expanse, caught by the underground menace or fleeing its clutches. Krawg had pursued that rusty-hinge chirp, compelled by hunger and, even more, by a longing to see feathers lift a mystery into the air, to hear a…