Month: September 2010
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Review: The Dark Man
His name is Charles Graves. He can wear any face; imitate any voice; fit in anywhere. His work for the Agency is legendary, especially among the hidden clusters of Christians he has helped uncover and “reclaim.” His father and only remaining family, Senator Cotton Graves, loves him. His coworker, relentless logic-girl Julia Jenkins, will do…
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Why Write Fantasy?
Someone once asked me why I write fantasy instead of (pardon me) real literature. This person wondered from a particularly Christian standpoint — shouldn’t Christians be more concerned about the real world? I’ve given the question a lot of thought over the years and summed up some of my answers in my “Apologetic” essay on…
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Jump, Jump, Jump
This video was filmed and edited by my good friend Josh (of JGills fame); everyone in it is a friend. A frightening number of them are related to me. The Nerdfest may or may not be happening in my house . . . The kid in the red shirt who really can actually dance is…
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Review: The Word Reclaimed
Here is how I feel about cliffhangers: AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGH! It doesn’t help that I am still nursing a feeling of rawness over the lack of resolution in Bryan Davis’s Masters and Slayers. I had to take my raw self wading into Steve Rzasa’s space opera The Word Reclaimed, suspecting more and more that this story was…