There's a link on the sidebar, under "Books" entitled Science fiction, fantasy and faith. That'll take you to an Amazon.com website where I've indexed books relevant to this blog. I don't expect anyone to necessarily buy these books through Amazon - it's just a useful way of gathering information about them, plus Amazon supplies brief descriptions. I up-date it periodically.
Currently the list of authors contains:
Michael Bishop - James Blish - G.K. Chesterton - Paul Cornell - D.M. Cornish - Philip K. Dick - Michael Flynn - Zenna Henderson - Robert Jordan - Jay Lake - Madeleine L'Engle - C.S. Lewis - Louise Marley - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - Elizabeth Moon - Susan Palwick - Katherine Paterson - Tim Powers - J.K. Rowling - Mary Doria Russell - Cordwainer Smith - J.R.R. Tolkien - Kathy Tyers - Charles Williams - Connie Willis - Gene Wolfe - John C. Wright.
There are other category pages, like Little-known Worthies, Quakers, and Literary SF/F.
Not every book is strictly science fiction or fantasy. There's a lot of variety. Some of the books have been included because the author is a religious person; in other cases the books contain religious imagery while the authors themselves does not practice any particular religion. And so forth.
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Thanks for sharing your list.
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Hi there. Some time ago, you posted a comment on my blog. Thanks again for that.
A friend of mine has sent a strand of the blog-equivalent of a chain letter, but it's actually kind of fun. So anyway, you've been tagged - details posted 11 April at my blog.
Hoping all's well for you.
Hi Jacob!
Well, thanks for thinking of me, but I'm going to pass. I think I've done that particular quiz before, and there's only so many random things a guy can say about himself! :-)
Hi! Just finished reading "Shadow of the Torturer" for the first time. Loved it. Awesome. I'm not sure reading it in 24 hrs. was the best thing, but I couldn't put it down. Here's the serious question: I can't picture Baldanders in any way except as Andre the Giant in "The Princess Bride" and is that normal? Is that a problem?
Xena Catolica
Well, personally I think of Baldanders as looking something like Lurch from the Adams Family: http://www.addamsfamily.com/addams/lurch4.jpg Or like Solomon Grundy from DC Comics: http://www.vacuumboy9.com/tlh/12p2.jpg
Andre the Giant is a bit too fat and jovial, IMHO. But, hey, it's your imagination!
Oh, and I'm glad the book drew you in so much!
Makes me want to go back to that essay on Wolfe's vocabulary I have been meaning to write. But that would mean I should finish reading the whole series. Which will have to wait until the last of the end of the semester crunch.
And, by the by, is that what is happening to you? Just too much to do?
(I've put up a post dedicated to you and Jack for what I think are obvious reasons)
Religion, for the most part is fantastic fiction.
“Science without religion is science; religion without science is religion.”
“There is no God in foxholes”
Hey Clemens,
I was pretty busy up until Thursday... and lately I've just been relaxing and recovering. Sounds like you're still in the thick of it, though!
Tor,
Thanks for the contemptous little sound-bites. Hope they made you feel better.
Remember that the ancient Greeks liked fiction because it could speak real TRUTH; while history was merely accurate.
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