For today's Superversive Blog, we have a guest post by British professor Bruce Charlton, who happins to be one of my husband's favorite authors. The Notions Club — as envisioned by Afalstein JRR Tolkien’s fragments of a novel called The Notion Club Papers: and my attempt to finish some of his unfinished business By Bruce…
Atheists love criticizing religion, and religious folks enjoy discussing how their spirits have been uplifted; however, very few people seem to want to hear about prayers actually being answered. Because of this, I normally don’t post this sort of thing. However, while at Marscon, I dreamt that I wrote this post. When I woke up,…
A post about Cornelius Prospero, Miranda's blind brother from the Prospero's Daughter series, and his journey through Hell at Bookworm Blues's Special Needs in Strange Worlds column at SFSignal: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/01/guest-post-special-needs-in-strange-worlds-l-jagi-lamplighter-on-meditations-on-a-blind-mans-journey-through-hell/
My official schedule for Marscon 2015 (Williamsburg, VA) Saturday 11AM – Jefferson Davis 2 Wonder Years: How YA Writers Address Teen Concerns in Fantastic Literature 1PM – Restaurant Annex Reel World Challenges: Adapting Films from Fiction 3PM – Jefferson Davis 2 Pets in SF/Fantasy (M) 4PM – Jefferson Davis 2 It Behooves…
Today we have a guest post by Mr. Pierce Oka — showing us how flexible Superversiveness truly can be! This post first appeared at Pierce's blog Dragon's and Dogma. Magic: The Superverting, or, Superversion isn’t just for literature anymore By Pierce Oka In middle school, my friend Ethan introduced me to what would become my…
Nothing Good Ever Happened At the Point of a Gun by Amy Sterling Casil What happens in Minsk, is felt in Minneapolis. What happens in Hong Kong, reverberates in Houston. What happened in Paris on January 7, 2015 broke my heart. The terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which took…
In the mood for holiday stories, some disturbing, some inspiring? The Book of Feasts and Seasons by John C. Wright.
Facing "The Cold Equations" by S. Dorman Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations" is perfectly balanced on the premise partly suggested in its title. Assigned for a course I've been auditing, the only thing troubling one's suspension of disbelief is lack of verisimilitude in its setting, particularly the .1 g. We lack lower gravity and capsule…
This was to be my Superversive post last week, but I never got it posted. This what John Scalzi's imaginary intern Chad would have called Christ: Origins The Birth of Jesus Christ As told by Luke and Matthew and the good scribes of King James Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this…
The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin appeared on Instapundit's IN THE MAIL today. Rather cool!
The illustrations for the books of Unexpected Enlightenment are now all available online
Signal Boost for fellow author, Mary Catelli. A short stories, a novelette, and a collection: Widowed, caught between two feuds, Katie was desperate enough that the Witch Prince witched her wits away, so that she let him steal her baby. Then there was no reason for him to not let the bewitchment fail, then. What, after all,…
Today we have a treat: a guest blog by my cover artist extraordinaire, Dan Lawlis. When, he is not painting covers, Dan works as a commercial artist. Before that, however, he drew for Marvel and DC Comics. Dan is currently working on a Chrisitan Comic Book called Orange Peal 3. From the comic Orange Peel 3 …
Signal Boosting for a fellow author! A different book by Jonathan Moeller A new GHOSTS novella, GHOST KEEPER, is now available at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon Canada, Amazon Australia, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iTunes, Google Play, and Smashwords. In GHOST KEEPER, Caina Amalas searches for answers among the relics of…
Today's post is a polished reprint of a post I did several years ago. This subject came up in the comments of my last post, so it seemed topical. Moments of Grace or Why "Realism" Isn't I have never liked dark, gritty, ‘realistic’ stories—the kind that are unrelentingly grim. The kind where there’s no hope,…