When Science Fiction Becomes Historical Fiction
by John WilsonThe future quickly becomes the past. Continue Reading »
A Year of Reading: 2022, Part 1
by John WilsonThis doesn’t purport to be a list of the “best” books of the year; rather, these are the ones from a year of reading that most readily come to mind. Continue Reading »
The Dune Phenomenon
by Elizabeth BachmannDune isn’t merely the sci-fi novel of sweeping scope and futuristic gadgets, but a story of man’s craving for God. Continue Reading »
What We’ve Been Reading—September 2021
by EditorsOur editors reflect on the future of American foreign policy, the Counter-Reformation, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and the work of Sergij Bulgakov. Continue Reading »
Infinite Hitlers
by Sam KrissIn 1980, the soldiers of the Third Reich took Bolivia. After the huge tank battles that had brought about the final victory in Europe, South America was something more like a police operation—in fact, the conquest of the country was led not by the Wehrmacht, but by a Hauptsturmführer of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Books Versus Screens
by K. E. ColombiniDoes the rise of screens spell extinction for books? Continue Reading »
Ecclesiology in Space
by David RandallScience fiction’s ambition to evoke the immensely long and strange history of the future gives these three works peculiar power to meditate on the promise that the Church will survive. Continue Reading »
Is There Prayer on Mars?
by Eric M. RiesenMars, the Red Planet, has stoked the imagination of stargazers for a long, long time. Could life exist on our planetary neighbor? Most recently, NASA announced that it appears that liquid water, at least occasionally, flows there. A manned landing is certainly within the realm of possibility. . . . . Continue Reading »
Don't Kill the Moon
by Alexi SargeantThe long-running British sci-fi staple Doctor Who has quietly become one of the most pro-life shows on television. Under the tenure of showrunner Steven Moffat, there has been a strong pro-life subtext for several seasons of Doctor Who. Even before Moffat took the reins of the show, he wrote a pair . . . . Continue Reading »
Jesus Lovers
by Randy BoyagodaThe Book of Strange New Things? by michel faber ?hogarth, 512 pages, $28 At last, someone has written the great interplanetary Christian missionary novel. Perhaps you weren’t aware that we were waiting for this. I certainly wasn’t, until reading British novelist Michel Faber’s new . . . . Continue Reading »
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