Review: Soul’s Gate, by James L. Rubart
Synopsis: Three people are invited to a remote retreat in order to gain a better relationship with God. Brandon, a CCM singer, feels like he is drifting away from God. Dana, a radio station worker,...
View ArticleListmania: Five of the Worst Tropes in Spiritual Warfare Fiction
from angels-angelology.com A trope is a building block of fiction. It’s a characterization, plot hook, audience observation, or other thing that can be quantified. It’s not a cliche, but a trope can be...
View ArticleNew Christian SF film: Remember
Finally, someone had stones enough to make one. Apparently, in the future the earth has just recovered from economic and demographic catastrophe. The trade off was giving too much power to the state,...
View ArticleMicroreview: Moon Dust Castles, by Jessica E. Thomas
This is a collection of four short stories, along with a bonus preview of an upcoming novel. Inter-D Unigalaxo Fairways is a humorous tale about an alien navigating the perilous issues of workplace...
View ArticleReview: Night of the Living Dead Christian by Matt Mikalatos
Synopsis: Matt Mikalatos (yes, the author himself) is out on Neighborhood Watch patrol when he sees two very suspicious people. He’s about to make the acquaintance of a mad scientist and his...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Shadow and the Flame
Synopsis: Jacob is your average, everyday teen boy. He’s got a decent business selling cookies on the side, he’s not keen on his younger brother following him around, and he has a solid group of...
View ArticleListmania: 10 Problems of Christian Spec-Fic Culture
Christian spec-fic culture is anemic. Here are ten reasons why. 1. No Television or Movie Presence. One of the reasons speculative fiction has reached the place it has in our culture is that it is a...
View ArticleReview: Invasion of the Ninja, by Jeffrey A. Davis
Synopsis: It’s the 1980s, and high school student Jamie is enjoying everyday life. Mostly having fun with his friends as they get ready to graduate and move on to the next phases of their life. There’s...
View ArticleReview: Tycho, by William Woodall
Synopsis: Tycho is a young geneticist who stumbles upon a chilling secret. A disease in the wild, the Orion Strain, is poised to devastate the planet. Unlike other virulent diseases, it can easily...
View ArticleReview: Offworld, by Robin Parrish
Synopsis: Chris and the rest of the Mars exploration team have finished up their assignment and are on the long haul back to Earth. Unfortunately a horrible accident forces them to crash land. That’s...
View ArticleReview: Never to Live, by Just B. Jordan
Synopsis: Elwyn is a young half-elf who has suffered greatly in life. Having escaped from prison, she has to deal with self-created insanity in order for her to deal with a dark secret in her past....
View ArticleStill Alive
Sorry, both the holidays and a general sense of jadedness over the current state of Christian Spec Fiction stopped my posts for awhile. They’ll be back soon.
View ArticleReview: Quantum Mortis: A Man Disrupted by Vox Day and Steve Rsaza
Synopsis: Rhysalan is a planet where a rough neutrality is in place. A home for exiles and outcasts, Sanctuary laws keep the peace and enable embassies of different races and species to exist in uneasy...
View ArticleReview: Exile, by Rachel Starr Thomson
Synopsis: A girl named Reese is rescued from the sea by a fishing boat. The fisherman realizes that she is Oneness, part of a group of people who bind together the world. However, she claims to have...
View ArticleAn Apology, Again
I haven’t been keeping up with postings and reviews. Part of this is because there simply isn’t enough being released. I read on Kindle, and it seems the market has both dried up in terms of new...
View ArticleReview: Goddess Tithe, by Anne Elizabeth Stengl
Synopsis: Munny the ship-rat has to deal with Leonard the foreigner as their ship passes through the seas governed by the serpent Risafeth. The dragon will demand her tithe, and the question is will it...
View ArticleReview: Escape from the Black, by Kristy Pellegrin
Synopsis: The world ended rather easily. One day, everyone woke up to find that they were one of three types. Type:Reds had red eyes, and functioned normally. Type:Grays were seized with an almost...
View ArticleReview: Surviving the Apocalypse in Steinbach, MB, by Celesta Thiessen
Synopsis: Jen is an average seventeen year-old living in a small Mennonite town in Manitoba. One day, reports of the terrorist bombing of many major cities hits the news, and throws both the USA and...
View ArticleReview: Get on Board, Little Children, by Victoria Randall
Synopsis: In a near-future America, people need licenses to have kids. You pay a sum equal to about the cost of a house and go through a battery of psychological tests to prove you are fit to parent....
View ArticleMicroreview: Cricket, a Short Story by Jeffrey Linn
A boy named Kevin and a man named Kreeg meet in a secret government facility. It’s obvious that Kevin is far more than he lets on, and Kreeg soon becomes the only one who can get him to open up. What...
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