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Post by Nissa Annakindt on Dec 23, 2010 12:42:27 GMT -5
What are your favorite Christian science fiction writers? Mine are Orson Scott Card, the Ender series and the Homecoming series, Jerry B. Jenkins' Left Behind series (although I know many don't count Christian apocalyptic fiction as SF) and an number of others I can't think of right now....
There's one called 'The Skin Map' about alternate history timelines and travel between them, I can't think of the author's name offhand....
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Post by amandawho42 on Dec 23, 2010 13:50:28 GMT -5
I'm so glad you created this group, Nissa.  I'm still finding my way around. I love Karina Fabian. Great writer, plus she recently edited a collection of Catholic sci fi by various writers, Infinite Space, Infinite God II. |
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Post by Nissa Annakindt on Dec 23, 2010 22:32:54 GMT -5
I don't know how I managed to forget Karina Fabian seeing as I've been seeing stuff about her zombie book everywhere I look lately.
I read the first ISIG anthology and it was great.... I also read the other sci-fi anthology Leaps of Faith, also great.
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Post by Quatermass on Dec 24, 2010 4:38:44 GMT -5
Since when was Orson Scott Card a Christian sci-fi author?  |
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Post by Nissa Annakindt on Dec 24, 2010 8:08:49 GMT -5
Orson Scott Card is a Christian--- a member of the LDS church, anyway, I know some folks don't believe that Mormons are Christians. Being a Catholic, I do believe that the theology of the LDS church is in error in many respects but I feel called to respect Mormons as my brothers and sisters in the Christian faith.
That being said, I don't expect all Christians of all denominations and viewpoints to agree with it or to accept Orson Scott Card as a 'real' Christian.
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Post by Quatermass on Dec 24, 2010 17:36:15 GMT -5
Orson Scott Card is a Christian--- a member of the LDS church, anyway, I know some folks don't believe that Mormons are Christians. Being a Catholic, I do believe that the theology of the LDS church is in error in many respects but I feel called to respect Mormons as my brothers and sisters in the Christian faith. That being said, I don't expect all Christians of all denominations and viewpoints to agree with it or to accept Orson Scott Card as a 'real' Christian. Who said I'm a Christian? I'm an agnostic, bordering on atheism. And it's a shock to hear that Orson Scott Card is a Mormon. A mild shock, mind, I liked his novelisation of The Abyss, and intend to read Ender's Game some day. But surely that, with the exception of Jenkins, the faith is irrelevant as long as it is not crammed down our throats? The closest thing that came to Christian science fiction proper that I remotely enjoyed (and I haven't read it cover to cover yet) was Ben Bova's Jupiter. |
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Post by Nissa Annakindt on Dec 24, 2010 23:44:45 GMT -5
Quatermass, in spite of the fact that you were posting in a section for science fiction writers of the Christian faith, I not only never said you were a Christian, but I assumed that you were not one from your tone.
Might I suggest that if you are not a Christian and do not read and enjoy Christian fiction that this particular board would be of little interest to you?
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Post by Quatermass on Dec 25, 2010 0:43:24 GMT -5
Quatermass, in spite of the fact that you were posting in a section for science fiction writers of the Christian faith, I not only never said you were a Christian, but I assumed that you were not one from your tone. Might I suggest that if you are not a Christian and do not read and enjoy Christian fiction that this particular board would be of little interest to you? Call me inquisitive. Or curious. Curiosity is a great cause of self-inflicted injury. And I did read and enjoy the Left Behind books some time ago. |
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Post by Nissa Annakindt on Dec 25, 2010 9:17:18 GMT -5
And I did read and enjoy the Left Behind books some time ago. I read them too, in spite of the fact that I was not a Christian but a neopagan at the time. (Even now that I'm a Christian I still don't believe in the Rapture theory because I'm Catholic.) But just because one doesn't agree with an author is no reason to reject his work. |
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Post by Quatermass on Dec 25, 2010 18:01:38 GMT -5
And I did read and enjoy the Left Behind books some time ago. I read them too, in spite of the fact that I was not a Christian but a neopagan at the time. (Even now that I'm a Christian I still don't believe in the Rapture theory because I'm Catholic.) But just because one doesn't agree with an author is no reason to reject his work. Preaching to the converted here. The man who created the serials from which I take my name, Nigel Kneale, hated Doctor Who and Blake's 7, two of my favourite shows. I detest the man and his opinions, but I still enjoy the Quatermass serials. |
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Post by lelia on Dec 26, 2010 18:50:05 GMT -5
Steven Lawhead wrote Skin Map and a torrent of Celtic books. I like Kathy Tyers, especially her Shivering World, and Karen Hancock, The Enclave, and Neimitz who wrote A Star Curiously Singing.
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Post by Nissa Annakindt on Dec 27, 2010 9:01:58 GMT -5
I loved The Skin Map, and participated in the blog tour for it with the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour. csffblogtour.com/ I've also read something by Karen Hancock in connection with the blog tour. |
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