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Claw of the Conciliator: Jewish Narnia?

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Thursday, March 04, 2010. Here's an interesting review essay by Michael Weingrad. In the course of his piece Weingrad asserts that fantasy as a genre has attracted few Jewish writers, and ponders why that might be. Of course a number of people beg to differ. About his premise (ie, Robert Silverberg's Majipoor. He quotes Abigail Nussbaum at length; her equally thought-provoking post on Weingrad's essay is here. Moreover, his overed...

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Claw of the Conciliator: January 2010

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Sunday, January 31, 2010. Atwood on theological narrative in SF. This is five years old, but I think it's worth citing. Margaret Atwood muses about science fiction:. Read the whole thing here. I just discovered that in September 2009 Atwood published a sequel/companion piece to her thought-provoking dystopia Oryx and Crake. Entitled The Year of the Flood. On the environment, religious history, and green spirituality. The myriad fo...

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Claw of the Conciliator: February 2009

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Thursday, February 26, 2009. This post is not actually about the great Orson Welles/Graham Greene movie. It's about a book I recently came across,. The Third Man Factor. It has an ambitious subtitle:. The Secret to Survival in Extreme Environments. Fans of T.S. Eliot will recall these lines from. Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road.

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The Ants Of God Are Queer Fish: November 2014

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The Ants Of God Are Queer Fish. And Walk Now Gently Through The Fire. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Another brief short story review - 'The Wagons' (1959). Http:/ www.ralafferty.org/works/stories/the-wagons/. The Wagons' deserves to be widely known and would make a good introduction to Lafferty's work for general readers. It could very easily be included in a Norton Anthology of American Literature or the like. Daniel Otto Jack Petersen. Links to this post. New Mexico Quarterly Review. The creator of this...

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Claw of the Conciliator: September 2010

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Sunday, September 12, 2010. Oops, and The Year of the Flood. OK, next time I should do my research before posting! In other news, earlier this year I mentioned. Margaret Atwood's recent novel. The Year of the Flood. This summer I got a chance to read it, and I really liked it. It's the companion piece to her earlier Oryx and Crake. S opinion and he felt that O&C. More, however, because it was (relatively speaking) more upbeat, and...

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Claw of the Conciliator: Science fiction, fantasy and faith: Book reviews

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Thursday, June 22, 2006. Science fiction, fantasy and faith: Book reviews. I've decided to keep track of my book reviews separately (and alphabetically by author). I'll make a link to this post on the sidebar, and continue updating it as an index. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick. Soldier, Ask Not, by Gordon Dickson. Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn. The Go...

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Claw of the Conciliator: January 2009

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Wow, has it really been more than a month since my last post? Ouch Sorry about that. [Insert lame but true excuses about the holidays and university workload here.]. If you have been missing my unique blend of. whatever-it-is, please head on over to Holy Heroes! For a long post I did recently about Crucifixion in the Work of Grant Morrison. It caused Eve Tushnet to say "faboo! Ubik is the miracle product!

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Claw of the Conciliator: November 2009

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Thursday, November 26, 2009. Is what's enabling me to write this post. That and my guilt over not posting for almost five months. I don't imagine anyone's been waiting on tenterhooks. But I do feel like I should say: I'm not dead. So, what's happened since July? I can't say I have much to report on the science fiction/fantasy level. I did read most of The Master and Margarita. I did finish Reynold's House of Suns. It was thought-p...

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Claw of the Conciliator: American Narnia?

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Claw of the Conciliator. Religion in speculative and fantastic literature. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. I guess being the president would have its perks. Rather than getting taken on a bunch of boring official tours, you'd get to look at the really cool stuff. For example, President Obama recently inspected the wardrobe which grants access to Narnia. Magazine did a series entitled " A history of Obama feigning interest in mundane things,. Awesome things include a Green Lantern Corps power ring.

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They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven On Their Heads: Stolen Faces (1977) by Michael Bishop

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They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven On Their Heads. Plying the Starways one book at a time (Science Fiction Reviews and Views). Thursday, December 19, 2013. Stolen Faces (1977) by Michael Bishop. Pulp roots in more technological and physical 'hard sciences' into new explorations of more sociological and cultural 'soft sciences'. In light of this shift, it's fascinating to see that the term ' astrogation. Navigation in outer space) is shared by the books of my previous. Making a solid planetary place that c...