Fantasy Blog Tour

This month, the tour is featuring Marcher Lord Press, a new publishing house for Christian sf, founded by the energetic and innovative Jeff Gerke (a.k.a. Jefferson Scott). Sadly, Marcher Lord doesn't launch until October, so there isn't a great deal to say yet.Gerke is also the proprietor of the Christian sf resource clearinghouse, Where the Map Ends. Readers here may also remember that I attempte

And now for the dissenting view.Broken Angel by Sigmund Brouwer. Waterbrook Press (Colorado Springs): 2008. 243 pages. $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-4000-7032-9.See Sigmund Brouwer's website, CoolReading.com.Sometime in the near future, America's religious right has implausibly gathered together in the Appalachians to follow a fascist dictator who calls himself Bar Elohim. Seceding from the rest of the coun

DragonsAreAwesome!Snuffles the Dragon here. Deej over there, apparently on "request" from a reader, wants me to talk about some novel or other for some Blog Tour or other, and I was right at a cliffhanger (will Miaka and Tamahome ever get back together?), so I'm a little grumpy.The book on tour is none other than Donita K. Paul's DragonLight, volume 5 of the Compound Nouns that Start with Dragon S

Dear Blog Tour members and visitors,Thanks for stopping by. This blog is currently in the hiatus position while the proprietor is job-hunting and his co-bloggers are too lazy to do anything without his constant nagging. For that reason, we have not prepared appropriate content for this month's tour. Again. Yeah.I am unable to discuss this month's novel (though this time, at least, I have a good ex

This month's tour goes out to the webzine MindFlights.Blog Tour:Brandon BarrJustin BoyerJackie CastleCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonJeff DraperApril ErwinKarina FabianKameron M. FranklinBeth Goddard Andrea GrahamTodd Michael GreeneKatie HartMichael HealdChristopher HopperJoleen HowellJason JoynerKaitCarol KeenMike LynchTerri MainMargaretRebecca LuElla MillerPamela MorrissonJohn W. OtteJ

When you spend the day swinging a pickax, digging a pit, throwing large chunks of concrete, and hauling 240-pound* segments of rail--by yourself--the last thing you want to do is post to your blog. Fortunately, that's why God created blog tours.This month's Christian sf tour goes out to The Begotten, book 1 of The Gifted, by Lisa T. Bergren, whose official website is here. Once again, I regret not having read the book for the tour, and I feel it especially deeply this time: the book is set in Medieval Italy and involves the surfacing of some previously unknown writings by a biblical author as well as the appearance of people with superpowers. Appears to be getting excellent reviews. I especially regret having not read it as some reviews indicate it takes a decidedly anti-Catholic stance (a

On the Edge of the Redundant Sea of Redundancy?This month's Christain Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour goes out to On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson, a work of young adult (YA) lit that appears to be getting quite positive reviews. After a long dry spell without fiction, it's nice to sit down with a book about children with mystical powers who go on an adventurous quest.The author's official website is here.The author's blog is here.The blog tour is here:Sally ApokedakBrandon BarrJim BlackJustin BoyerJackie CastleValerie ComerCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonJaney DeMeoJeff DraperApril ErwinBeth Goddard Marcus GoodyearTodd GreenJill HartKatie HartMichael HealdTimothy HicksChristopher HopperJason JoynerKaitCarol KeenMike LynchMargaretRachel MarksShannon Mc

Regular readers know I'm off fiction for now, so I can do little besides introduce this month's blog tour, which is the novel The Shadow and Night by Chris Walley.The book's website is here.The author's blog is here.Your blog tour is here:Brandon BarrJim BlackJustin BoyerGrace BridgesJackie CastleCarol Bruce Collett Valerie ComerCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonChris DeanneJaney DeMeoJeff DraperApril ErwinMarcus GoodyearRebecca Grabill Jill HartKatie HartMichael HealdTimothy HicksChristopher HopperHeather R. HuntJason JoynerKaitCarol KeenMike LynchMargaretRachel MarksShannon McNearMelissa MeeksRebecca LuElla MillerMirtika or Mir's HerePamela MorrissonEve NielsenJohn W. OtteJohn OttingerDeena PetersonRachelleSteve RiceAshley RutherfordChawna SchroederJames SomersRachelle SperlingDo

This month, we're featuring the e-zine, Wayfarer's Journal. Today, I'm criticizing an essay in the journal, Tom Hohstadt's "Are You Ready for Science Fiction Clergy?"Upon seeing the title of his essay, I hoped Hohstadt would discuss gun-toting cyborg priests. Alas, nothing so intellectual is on his mind. What he calls "science fiction clergy" appears to be a version of the Emerging Church Movement. Personally, The Sci Fi Catholic is offended to see the venerable term "science fiction" applied to something as half baked as the Emerging Church.Hohstadt gets off to a good start by telling us that "new realities are emerging." Well, that's news to me; I suppose if new realities are emerging, we really will need science fiction clergy to cope. I don't know about Hohstadt, but I'm in the same reality I was in last year. If he's really skipping from one parallel universe to another, I suggest he see a doctor.Be wary of any writer, especially a religious one, who tells you reality is c

This month, we are featuring the e-zine, Wayfarer's Journal. Below is the press release and tour list, and we'll be back tomorrow with a review!Science Fiction with a Spiritual Dimension featured in new E-ZineWayfarer's Journal (http://www.wayfarersjournal.com/), a new science fiction e-zine, was launched in February. The publication focuses on publishing science fiction stories with a "spiritual dimension""By spiritual we don't mean preachy," comments Wayfarers editor Terri Main. "We mean stories which not only project the reader into the future technologically, but see how those changes impact the morality, ethics and spirituality of believable characters"Main notes that spiritual issues are often not addressed by secular science fiction publications, and that many religious publications are reticent about publishing science fiction or fantasy."This shying away from the spiritual aspect of humanity in science fiction is foolish. A look at any newscast will show

Yeah, it's Snuffles again. Deej calls me up again and we have the following bizarre conversation:D.G.D.: Man, this project's really takin' it outta me. I feel like I've been dancin' with Mr. Brownstone.Snuffles: Knowing you, you're probably unaware that that phrase refers to shooting up heroine.D.G.D.: I've always liked stories with strong heroines. Maybe you can blog something about that.Snuffles: You want me to blog something about what you like?D.G.D.: Would you? I'd really appreciate it. Catch ya later.And then he hangs up on me. So I'm sitting here with vague instructions and no new content. All I can say is, don't use strong heroine or you'll end up like Deej.Anyway, I figure we might as well take a mosy around this so-called "blog tour." That way, instead of coming up with my own content, I'll just borrow other people's. In case you forgot, the tour has to do with this book called Scarlet by this guy named Stephen R. Lawhead.To start out, we have Mirtika, who I assu

Snuffles the Dragon here. Deej calls me up from some motel room, tells me he's real tired and doesn't want to post today, and then asks me if I'll say something nice about some book called Scarlet by some guy named Stephen R. Lawhead. So anyway, here's the second day of the blog tour--Snuffles Style.Now, I'm pretty sure Lawhead doesn't draw comics and doesn't hail from Japan, so I don't know why anyone thinks I'd know anything about his book. Though I think I once saw Deej with a copy of Search for Fierra, I haven't read any of Lawhead's work. My first thought was of course that Scarlet must be a sequel to Gone with the Wind, but it turns out it's actually a sequel to Hood, the first volume of the Raven King trilogy, which draws on the legends of Robin Hood, among other things.Though I don't know very much about Lawhead, I do know that Michael O'Brien in his A Landscape With Dragons considers Lawhead's writing morally questionable because Lawhead's characters sometimes

I'm headed for the door to go to the field, so I can't give this the post it deserves at the moment (but will later if I have the chance). This months' blog tour goes out to Stephen R. Lawhead's Scarlet, book 2 in the Raven King trilogy.Here are this month's tour participants:Trish AndersonBrandon BarrWayne Thomas BatsonJim BlackJustin BoyerGrace BridgesAmy BrowningJackie CastleValerie ComerCSFF Blog TourD. G. D. DavidsonChris DeanneJeff DraperApril ErwinBeth GoddardMarcus GoodyearAndrea GrahamJill HartKatie HartSherrie HibbsTimothy HicksChristopher HopperBecca JohnsonJason JoynerKaitKarenDawn KingTina KulesaMike LynchMargaretKaren McSpaddenMelissa MeeksRebecca LuElla MillerMirtika or Mir's HereEve NielsenJohn W. OtteJohn OttingerLyn PerryDeena PetersonRachelleCheryl RusselAshley RutherfordHanna SandvigChawna SchroederJames SomersRachelle SperlingSteve TrowerSpeculative FaithRobert TreskillardJason WaguespacDaniel I. WeaverLaura WilliamsTimothy Wise

And this month's blog tour goes out to The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers, a retelling of the story of David and Goliath as a fantasy for children. It's the first volume in the Wilderking Trilogy.You can see Rogers's website here. The interactive map on the website is kind of cool, and according to Rogers's bio, the swamps in the novel are based on real swamps in Georgia, sort of like in Pogo, and being like Pogo is sweet, right?Elsewhere on this tour de blog, as they say in the French, you'll find a brief, snappy review on QuestWriter.Tour it like you blog it! ...rrr, something. Brandon Barr Jim Black Justin Boyer Grace Bridges Amy Browning Jackie Castle Valerie Comer CSFF Blog Tour D. G. D. Davidson Chris Deanne Janey DeMeo Merrie Destefano or Alien Dream Jeff Draper April Erwin Linda Gilmore Marcus Goodyear Andrea Graham Jill Hart Katie Hart Sherrie Hibbs Christopher Hopper Becca Johnson Jason Joyner Karen Dawn King Mike Lynch Rachel Marks Karen McSpadden Melissa Me

And the blog tour continues.This month's tour features The Return, book 3 of the Mars Hill Classified series by Austin Boyd. I, um, haven't read it. I'm hearing good things, though.Blog on:Trish AndersonBrandon BarrJim BlackJustin BoyerGrace BridgesAmy BrowningJackie CastleValerie ComerKarri ComptonLisa CromwellCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonJaney DeMeoMerrie Destefano or Alien DreamJeff DraperApril ErwinBeth GoddardMarcus GoodyearJill HartKatie HartSherrie HibbsChristopher HopperBecca JohnsonJason JoynerKaitKarenDawn KingTina KulesaRachel MarksKaren McSpaddenRebecca LuElla MillerEve NielsenJohn W. OtteLyn PerryDeena PetersonRachelleCheryl RusselChawna SchroederMirtika SchultzJames SomersSteve TrowerSpeculative FaithLaura WilliamsTimothy Wise

And the blog tour begins.This month's tour goes out to The Return, book 3 of the Mars Hill Classified series by Austin Boyd.In other news, the Spirit of Vatican 2 "Catholic" Faith Community has weighed The Sci Fi Catholic in the scales and found it wanting. As a result, it has officially and unceremoniously banned this blog forever, for the following reasons:Phariseeism, Funny Languages, Intolerance, Republicanism, and Offensiveness. I was hoping for a Neocatholic (NC) rating and a Bells and Smells (BS), but apparently I didn't quite squeak by. Not sure what the "Republicanism" thing is about.You will find me caught beneath the landslide of a Blog Tour Supernova (I'm running out of these things!):Trish AndersonBrandon BarrJim BlackJustin BoyerGrace BridgesAmy BrowningJackie CastleValerie ComerKarri ComptonLisa CromwellCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonJaney DeMeoMerrie Destefano or Alien DreamJeff DraperApril ErwinBeth GoddardMarcus GoodyearJill HartKatie HartSherrie HibbsCh

The swashing and buckling just won’t stop!This month's Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour is featuring The Legend of the Firefish by George Bryan Polivka. You can read Polivika's blog here.Today, in honor of Polika’s high seas pirate adventure novel, we have a pirate short story!The Ballad of Ichabod the Scourgeby Ichabod the ScourgeThis is the sorriest bunch o’ land-lubbers I e’er laid eyes on in me life! But we’ll make real piratey pirates out o’ ye yet! I’m here to tell ya a story that’ll put real hair on yer chests! It’s called “The Ballad o’ Ichabod the Sailor and how he became the nastiest meanest, low-downest, dirtiest sailor ever to ply the seven and a half seas.”Arrgh, once upon a time, the nastiest, meanest, low-downest, dirtiest sailor e’er to ply the seven an’ a half seas was Rupert the Scum. And Rupert had a snivelly, wet-nosed young lubber of a cabin boy by the name o’ Billy.Now, one o’ the pirates’ favoritest past-times is a-r

Buckle your swash and get ready for adventure!This month's Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour is featuring The Legend of the Firefish by George Bryan Polivka. The descriptions I've encountered make me wish I'd read this one. Ah well, maybe next tour.The novel appears to be of the nostalgic swashbuckler variety. The combination of high seas excitement and a quest for a legendary animal put me in mind of Kenneth Oppel's Airborn, though that of course features blimps, not ships.You can read Polivika's blog here.To enter the "Talk Like a Pirate Contest" associated with this book, see this press release.In honor of the novel, tomorrow morning I'll post a piratey swashbuckling short story!And don't forget the rest of the blog tour:Trish AndersonBrandon BarrWayne Thomas BatsonJim BlackJustin BoyerGrace BridgesAmy BrowningJackie CastleValerie ComerKarri ComptonFrank CreedLisa CromwellCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonMerrie DestefanoJeff DraperApril ErwinBeth GoddardMar

Robin Parrish's novel, Fearless, book 2 of The Dominion Trilogy, is the featured novel this month.There's a brief description of the book and a short review available at Fiction Fanatics Only! See another fine review at Spoiled for the Ordinary.Robin Parrish's website is here.Robin Parrish's blog is here.Your blog tour is here:Trish AndersonBrandon BarrWayne Thomas BatsonJim BlackJustin BoyerGrace BridgesAmy BrowningJackie CastleValerie ComerKarri ComptonFrank CreedLisa CromwellCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonMerrie DestefanoJeff DraperApril ErwinBeth GoddardMarcus GoodyearAndrea GrahamRussell GriffithJill HartKatie HartSherrie HibbsChristopher HopperJason JoynerKarenDawn KingTina KulesaLost Genre GuildRachel MarksRebecca LuElla MillerEve NielsenJohn W. OtteJohn OttingerLyn PerryRachelleCheryl RusselHanna SandvigChawna SchroederMirtika SchultzJames SomersSteve TrowerSpeculative FaithJason WaguespacDaniel I. Weaver

Thus ends another month's Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour. Thanks to everyone who came to the blog, read the posts, and commented. Thanks also to all my fellow tour participants.This blog is sort of the black sheep of the tour, as you may have been able to tell. I can't exactly claim that I cultivate that image intentionally. This is a fan site, not an author site, and generally speaking it's geared toward publications in what might be called the "mainstream" of sf and fantasy, but I'm much interested in seeing more Christian voices in the science fiction and fantasy market, and have an interest in the work being published in Christian sf/fantasy, which is independent of the "mainstream."When I opted to review The Restorer, I made a decision to review it in the same way I review other novels, though I planned to give it a little extra care and attention. Some of the responses to my review have led me to reconsider the way I write negative reviews.Reviewers are not the s

If you blog tour it, they will come.Post is early today because I’ll be in the field all day tomorrow. By the time I have a chance to post again, the blog tour will be pretty much over.This month’s Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour features Sharon Hinck’s novel, The Restorer. See Sharon Hinck’s blog here.Yesterday, I discussed Hinck’s use of the female warrior motif. Today, I indulge myself by hanging a brief essay from a few sentences in the novel. I promise it will be very brief.At the end of The Restorer, on page 447, the protagonist, Susan, looks back on an earlier worship experience in Lyric’s temple (called a “tower”) and wonders, “Would I ever again feel the presence of the One in such a tangible way as I had on the Feast day?” (p. 447).The society of Lyric is meant to be similar to that of Israel before Christ. Hinck is writing this as an Evangelical. Here she seems to be indicating that the tangible presence of God, “God with us,” is something

The blog tour of (female) champions.This month’s Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour features Sharon Hinck’s novel, The Restorer. See Sharon Hinck’s blog here.Yesterday, I reviewed Hinck’s novel. Today we’ll discuss its central conceit, the Woman Warrior.The Restorer, as previously discussed, is loosely based on the story of the judge, prophetess, and warrior Deborah from Judges 4 and 5. In Hinck’s alternate universe, the soldiers, forming something like a looseknit formal militia, are known as “guardians.” Female guardians are common in Hinck’s world, which tends to mask the uniqueness of Deborah’s role and that of Hinck’s protagonist.Though women riding into battle were not a mainstay of ancient oriental warfare, the story of Deborah and her counterpart Jael have a thematic relationship with the stories of other women in the Old Testament:After Barak and Deborah ride to war and rout the forces of Hazor, the Hazorite captain Sisera flees to the tent of Ja

White American suburbia + swordfighting = really bad science fantasy.This month’s Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour features Sharon Hinck’s novel, The Restorer. See Sharon Hinck’s blog here. My review of her novel follows:The Restorer by Sharon Hinck. The Sword of Lyric, book 1. Navpress (Colorado Springs): 2007. 477 pages. $14.99. ISBN-13: 978-1-60006-131-8, ISBN-10: 1-60006-131-1.According to Alberto Manguel in A History of Reading, Henry Miller claimed that James Joyce’s Ulysses is best read in the toilet. If so, then Sharon Hinck’s The Restorer is best read in the bubble bath. And with a total of 477 sluggish pages to get through, I burned the midnight aromatherapy candles to ensure you had this review on time.The story begins with the innocuously named narrator, Susan Mitchell, who has developed a serious case of homemaker ennui, not because her family is dysfunctional or her life is in tatters, but because her family is perfect and her life is mind-numbingly d

There's no new info today because I'm spending my free time working on my novel. It's a fantasy involving all the things I love about fantasy, so it's got talking dinosaurs, virgin warrior princesses, beefy men in loincloths, and all kinds of other fun things.If you haven't already, check out yesterday's movie review.Note that the shameless sidebar has a new widget offering you the once-in-a-lifetime chance to vote for this blog on Fuelmyblog. I think you can vote repeatedly, possibly bringing new readers to the blog, if you happen to care.Also, don't forget that Monday, June 18 to Wednesday, June 20 is the Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour. Because of circumstances beyond our control, we've been able to do little during past tours besides post links, but this month, I have a lengthy book review and a few short essays based on Sharon Hinck's novel, The Restorer, which is the featured book this month. I'll post the review on Monday morning so it will be up early for

This month's blog tour is set for this Monday to Wednesday, and this month's feature novel is Sharon Hinck's The Restorer. I have a review of the novel all ready to go, and I'm hard at work at some other supplementary materials including an essay exploring the book's themes and a more self-indulgent essay hanging a discussion on a couple of sentences from the novel. I hope you will all come for the blog tour, and I hope you will find the discussion interesting.

Because of the move, I can't give it the attention it deserves, but the feature site for this month's blog tour is The Sword Review, an e-zine dedicated to sf and fantasy stories and articles. They also appear to have really good cover art.Okay, okay, I'll take time out of my busy schedule of washing windows, packing boxes, and steam-cleaning corn chip fragments (Snuffles's fault, not mine) out of the carpet in order to tell you a little bit about what I've seen at The Sword Review. Specifically, I read "Tiama--a Story of Hope" by David R. Downing. And, in fact, that's about all I read.To be honest, it underwhelmed me. I found it "deficient in action," to steal a phrase from Ebenezer Elliott's assessment of Montgomery's World Before the Flood. "Tiama" has a kernel of a good idea, following the (miraculous?) rescue of a town being slowly buried by encroaching desert. Downing writes in the story's discussion forum that "Tiama" is loosely based on a real town fighting off sand fr

King. Guardian. Return. What's not to love?Return of the Guardian King by Karen Hancock is still the Blog Tour's feature novel this month.But before we can get to that, we have a desperate situation on our hands. Keith Strohm From the Shattered Drum has memed me. It's my first meme. I'm so excited.So here we go. *Ahem.* Testing, testing, one two three. Me-me-me-me-me! Me-me! Meme! Okay, I'm ready.The meme is entitled Booked by 3--In Character. I don't understand it either.Name up to three characters...1). You wish were real so you could meet them. This is tough since my favorite characters are ones I neither want to be or meet, especially in a dark alley. Let's see...a. The first is obvious. Thorn and Bone from Bone, of course. I know that's two characters, but they're a unit.b. Probably Indiana Jones. You think I'm cheating because he's a movie and not a book character, but you forget the paperback series by Max McCoy. The great thing about Indy is that he, unlike James Bon

Any king can return, but it takes a Guardian King to return in style.I'm not going to be posting much today because I'm still recovering from yesterday's gargantuan essay, which I should have split up into more readable segments. Come to think of it, I might do that.Return of the Guardian King by Karen Hancock is the Blog Tour's feature novel this month. I haven't read this one either (but that situation should change in June!). This is fourth and final in the series. From the looks of things, it's a rather dense high fantasy with some Christian allegory.Hancock's official website is here. Her blog is here.And here's the rest of your Blog Tour, so move along, now:Nissa AnnakindtWayne Thomas BatsonJim BlackJackie CastleValerie ComerKarri ComptonFrank CreedCSFF Blog TourGene CurtisD. G. D. DavidsonChris DeanneJaney DeMeoApril ErwinKameron M. FranklinBeth GoddardMarcus GoodyearAndrea GrahamKatie HartSherrie HibbsSharon HinckChristopher HopperHeather R. HuntBecca JohnsonJason Joyne

Don't forget the book of the month for this month's Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour is Double Vision by Randy Ingermanson, which features the story of an autistic savant computer programmer and the women who love him. Our feature blog is that of the author, Randy Ingermanson, physicist and Christian sf novelist.So what else will you find on Ingermanson's site? Well, if you're interested in writing a novel of your own, Ingermanson offers advice. Right on his main page is a place to sign up for his newsletter about how to write fiction. Hey, I'm getting one.He also has a page on writing that gives advice right there on the website, so check it out.Get your blog tour on:Nissa AnnakindtJim BlackGrace BridgesJackie CastleValerie ComerKarri ComptonFrank CreedCSFF Blog TourD. G. D. DavidsonJaney DeMeoTessa EdwardsApril ErwinBeth GoddardMarcus GoodyearAndrea GrahamLeathel Grody Katie HartSherrie HibbsSharon HinckChristopher HopperJason JoynerKarenTina KulesaLost Genre GuildKev

Women want him, nanoprobes fear him.The book of the month for this month's Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour is Double Vision by Randy Ingermanson, which features the story of an autistic savant computer programmer...and the women who love him. Our feature blog is that of the author, Randy Ingermanson, physicist and Christian sf novelist.I got a little scared when I went looking at his blog and found he had a section on the so-called Bible Code. I was gearing up to write an article flaming him, but after going through his information, I figured I'd better hold back. Everyone relax: Ingermanson is not a supporter of the Bible Code. In fact, he has some good summaries of why you shouldn't believe in it. His article on prophecies in the alleged codes is quite good. The article on proximity has more meat to it. The one on bias is excellent.I'll admit, looking at his stuff on the Bible Code makes me want to read Ingermanson's books. He is succeeding here at making statistical

Welcome to The Sci Fi Catholic. We're dedicated to discussing the relationship between speculative fiction and religion. If you've never been here before, have a look around. We love angry, confrontational comments so much, sometimes we write our own. This article and this news item have gotten good plugs from other bloggers, and I'm fond of this review.But enough about us. Have you been to Where the Map Ends? If not, why not? Check out the awesome stuff there. This website is all about Christian sf, and it's got cool graphics, too. In particular, notice the extensive advice for aspiring writers. Some of the suggestions are unusual and unusually cool. For example, this site directs you to, among other things, random map-generating software for lazy writers who like much of their world-building done for them. Whatever happened to the good old days when writers sketched their ideas on legal pads?Okay, okay. I'm not convinced all of that is healthy. I mean, do your own homework. But

I've just received some final info about this months' blog tour. Don't forget it begins on Monday, February 19, and ends Wednesday, February 21, so check in here on those days for cool stuff on our feature blog and an intro to a bunch of Christian speculative fiction blogs!